Lost My Launcher

[banjo]

I had a strange thing happened on my Mandy 9.1

last night.

 

I was on line using KPPP on KDE when I closed down

Mozilla, and the launcher bar at the bottom of

the screen went away with it.

 

Everything was running fine, except that I no

longer had the task bar with the icons in it so

I could no longer de-iconify KPPP to hang up

and log out. I did a ps -ax in the CLI, and

the launcher processes seemed to

be running, and KPPP was still connected and

working. I just wanted to display the KPPP

dialog box so I could hang up.

 

I tried to kill the KPPP process, to

see if that would hang it up, but it did not

work. So, I logged out, and it hung up.

 

Problem fixed, but I am curious whether there is

a way from the CLI to cause the launcher to redisplay its

task bar or to force iconified programs to display

their dialog boxes.

 

 

Is there a way to tell the KDE WM to do this?

 

What is the name of the KDE WM process?

 

This is not a big deal because it was easy to

get around it, but I am curious about how the

desktop hangs together (this KDE is not your

grandfather's WM).

 

Thanks in advance

Banjo

(_)=='=~

 

P.S. Linux rocks

[bvc]

use to be that running kppp from cli would bring up the dialog again. Kill pppd not kppp

 

killall pppd

 

kppp is just a gui for pppd

[Steve Scrimpshire]

The taskbar/toolbar thingy is called kicker. If you lose it again, just type

 

ps ax | grep kicker

 

To see if it really has stopped running. Then you can start it again by

 

kicker &

[banjo]

Thanks for the help.

 

This will probably never happen again; my Mandy 9.1

is pretty stable. But it is nice to know what to look

for anyway.

 

Banjo

(_)=='=~