taskbar gone in suse 10.1

[aral]

Hi,
my taskbar is gone , I have no idea how that hapened .. the windows button from the keyboard doesn't work so I can't bring up the start menu .. I can't do anything to bring back the taskbar. Does anyone know what's going on ? or what's the name of the process associated with the taskbar or something ? I'm using suse 10.1 KDE GUI . Thanks !

[bigtomrodney]

It's called the kicker. You can launch it with alt+F2 or from a terminal like this -

kicker &

That way it'll keep running if you close the terminal.

[devils casper]

has whole Panel gone or only TaskBar? if only TaskBar is missing, right click on Panel and click Add Applet to Panel. Select and Add TaskBar from Applet List.

[aral]

I can't see anything. I can't see the processes which are usually near the clock .. so I guess the panel too .. is gone .. my terminology is a weak ..sorry. Stilll.. I don't know how I can bring it back. The kicker is running but I can't see the taskbar so I guess there's no point in starting it again .. When I minimize a window it looks like it goes down somewhere .. . Does anyone know what I could do ? Thanks

[devils casper]

If Clock is visible, it means Kicker is running and you have to add TaskBar only. did you try to add TaskBar from Applets List as i suggested in last post?

[aral]

What I meant to say is that I don't see anything not even the clock ( sorry for not being clear enough earlier ) ., nor the switch where I can change desktops .. nothing, not a thing so I don't have anything to right click on ! So I guess the Panel is gone. . or what ? ..don't know. The kicker is running .. I know this because I checked the process table. So is there nothing I can do ?

[gogalthorp]

Have you logged out and back in again??

Kill the current version of kicker

kill PID where PID is the id of the processes reported by

ps -A | grep kicker

Then restart it.

That might work.

[gogalthorp]

Also are you sure that it is not just minimized? Is there an arrow bar on the left or right edge of the screen where the panel should be? If so click it.

[aral]

Yup , it did the trick. When I restarted it for the first time it appeared for only a sec. At the second try I managed to "catch" it with the mouse .. also its position was changed. . weird ... . It was not minimized.
Thanks !

[devils casper]

right click on Panel and select Configure Panel. adjust its position and uncheck Hide Automatically in Hiding Tab