How do you fix a panel in KDE 4.2.2?

[clay weber]

Jerry Lapham wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009 8:43:12 am clay weber wrote:
> 
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 2009/9/3 Cary Bielenberg <cary at bielenberg.id.au>:
>>>> On 03/09/09 09:05, Jerry Lapham wrote:
>>>>> Trying to use the touch pad on my new laptop, I accidentally  lost the
>>>>> desktops, open applications, the network connection, and perhaps some
>>>>> others. I can't find any way to add them back.  I don't remember the
>>>>> keyboard method for switching desktops because I've never needed it
>>>>> before so I'm stuck on desktop 1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Help!
>>>>>
>>>>>       -Jerry
>>>> Jerry,
>>>>          i find it easiest to do the following   sudo rm -r
>>>> ~/.kde/share/config
>>>> when you log back in it will recreate your taskbar etc, you will have to
>>>> reset up your favorites & walpapers etc.
>>>> '
>>> DO NOT DO THIS!
>>>
>>> It will erase all you KDE aplications' configurations, such as Kmail.
>>> Find the right file and rename (not delete) it. Only delete it when
>>> you are done.
>> I agree here. Are you missing the entire panel? or just the widgets on it?
>> have you tried re-adding these back via the right-click menu on your
>> desktop? You need to add a taskbar to the panel as well as any of the
>> other widgets such as the pager (for multiple desktops) and the network
>> manager widget.
>>
>> Once you have these items back, whichever way you get there, you can
>> 'lock' them via the right-click menu
>>
>>
>> clay
> 
> I was just missing some of the widgets.  I normally run Folder View so I 
> didn't see that the pager, digital clock, and the taskbar had just been moved 
> out of the panel and onto the desktop.  I've moved them back, so that part's 
> OK.  However, I can't find the network manager widget on the add widgets list 
> or on the desktop.  I used to have something right next to the battery widget 
> that showed the status of wicd and opened wicd with a single click.  I assume 
> that was network manager?
> 
> 	-Jerry

Wicd uses KDE's system tray, you might check to see that it is added to 
your panel, I don't believe that wicd has any sort of plasma widget, and 
by installing wicd, it removes the network-manager stuff, including the 
knetworkmanager widget as they conflict with wicd

clay