[CONFIGURATION] I do not like the changes to the menu bar after todays update

[steve7233]

How do I get the old configuration back? Everything has been moved to the left side. I prefer the clock and tray on the right and the menu and quick start buttons on the left. How do I reconfigure it the way I am used to? The mountain picture is nice.

[steve7233]

It's also not putting my active programs on the menu bar. I suspect the update may have gone south a messed up my system.

[claydoh]

You are missing a task manager widget on your panel -- something that is very unlikely to have been caused by an update, since this is a user-specific setting. I am sure there is some way a system update might do this, just that it is an extremely low chance. It would be a good idea to make sure you aren't missing any updates, or had issues installing them.

In any case, you can add the Icons-Only Task Manager widget back, or worst case try adding a new defualt panel on a side or the top,, then remove the original one and move the new one to the bottom.

[steve7233]

When I click on the icons only button, it says there was an error and lists a bunch of errors. Something broke during the update.

[steve7233]

Now the task bar is completely gone! That update broke my install!I guess I will have to reinstall Kubutu later.

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/main.qml:18:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module "org.kde.plasma.private.taskmanager": Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/taskmanager/libtaskmanagerplugin.so: (libprocesscore.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
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[steve7233]

You are missing a task manager widget on your panel -- something that is very unlikely to have been caused by an update, since this is a user-specific setting. I am sure there is some way a system update might do this, just that it is an extremely low chance. It would be a good idea to make sure you aren't missing any updates, or had issues installing them.

In any case, you can add the Icons-Only Task Manager widget back, or worst case try adding a new defualt panel on a side or the top,, then remove the original one and move the new one to the bottom.

There is no option to add a default pannel.

[Snowhog]

There is no option to add a default pannel.

Right-click on the Desktop. Mouse on + Add Panel and click on Default Panel

[steve7233]

Right-click on the Desktop. Mouse on + Add Panel and click on Default Panel

That worked but that panel is messed up too. I will look at that error message I get when trying to install the icon-only panel later today. May I can use APT to reinstall it and maybe that will get it working properly again. Have to be later.

[Princey]

Did you try any of these two commands to see if some package did not install properly?

sudo apt install --fix-broken

and

sudo apt install --fix-missing

Normally that should take care of most failed installation of packages/dependencies. It's the reason I always use the terminal to do system updates and leave Discover updater for themes updates and other non-essential updates (flatpaks). There, if anything is broken I can see what it is right away.

[jlittle]

Conceivably your problem is a messed up ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. You might try renaming that file, and logging out, and back in again; the file will be recreated, in a vanilla state, losing most plasma set up, but coming back in a consistent state.

[steve7233]

Conceivably your problem is a messed up ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. You might try renaming that file, and logging out, and back in again; the file will be recreated, in a vanilla state, losing most plasma set up, but coming back in a consistent state.

Thanks for trying but that did not work.

[steve7233]

Conceivably your problem is a messed up ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. You might try renaming that file, and logging out, and back in again; the file will be recreated, in a vanilla state, losing most plasma set up, but coming back in a consistent state.

Those two commands did nothing. Adding the Kubuntu default panel after just adds another broken panel. I think something broke and APT is unable to see that it is broken. Perhaps an unusual problem.

[steve7233]

I was just in Discover and I noticed that down in the left corner where it says updates if you look to the right of that there is a box with an orange background and in the center of that box is a white exclamation point. does this tell anyone anything?

[claydoh]

does this tell anyone anything?

Did you click on it?
It means you have updates, nothing new here.

If you are having errors updating tn the app:
The usual troubleshooting steps:

sudo apt update

and

sudo apt full-upgrade

and paste the errors here.

[steve7233]

The scroll back is too small to go back to the start. I was going to use my Pastebin account. I will reboot and let you know if it fixed the problem or if it is still broken.