If, like me, you’re tempted by the rather sleek desktop of KDE 4.2.x, Fedora 11 has a great implementation of it. However, KDE is (still) not without its issues…
One of them is the plasma panel widgets – they can simply get messed up upon a “bad” log-out.
To fix your plasma taskbar/widgets getting messed up on KDE 4.2, and restore the default settings, follow these steps:
cd /usr/share/kde4/ kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/configls
ls ~/.kde/share/config/
cat ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
mv ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc.bak
cp plasma-appletsrc ~/.kde/share/config/
Filed under: fedora, Linux, open source Tagged: | Fedora, KDE, panel, plasma, widgets
KDE 4.2 is so ancient, try 4.3, so much better
Why are you still using 4.2 when 4.3.1 has been available in Fedora updates for a few weeks now? It is worth the update as it fixes much of the instability in the earlier versions and I think it runs faster too.
Erm.. slight error with the publishing schedule on my blog actually..
Thanks for the heads-up on KDE 4.3. I’ve not had a chance to check it out yet, but I imagine they’ve done a good job of it.
I suppose Fedora 11 or 12 (http://fedoraproject.org/) equally show it off now, no? (I’m using RHEL myself).