banjo Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 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 & Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted December 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 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 (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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