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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Suse root problem. (d.hockinbt)


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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:25:18 +0100
From: "d.hockinbt" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Suse root problem.
Message-ID: <03C87F4ABCB74415B4FB05F497F4749C@Dave3>
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Many thanks to all for the many helpful suggestions. They have given me
plenty to investigate.
I've printed them off for reference, and will work my way through them over
the coming days.

My best wishes,

Dave (Posset)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Addison" <dave@redmoor.org.uk>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [bristol] Suse root problem.


> On Monday 21 Oct 2013 23:31:02 xifer wrote:
>> On Monday 21 Oct 2013 18:22:37 Roger Fletcher wrote:
>> > On 21/10/13 16:48, d.hockinbt wrote:
>> > > The other "funny" - a black bottom border to the screen, behind which
>> > > all "minimised" windows vanish for ever, today ISN'T there,
>> > > thankfully,
>> > > but I dread minimising anything, as it will again vanish into a black
>> > > hole, iretrievably. Not a good move! Yesterday I had to crash the
>> > > Linux
>> > > as I had no means of closing programmes, as they had disappeared into
>> > > the black "bit". So I have to just shrink windows on the desktop,
>> > > and
>> > > keep them clogging up the view. Why that black border appears, I
>> > > don't
>> > > know.
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Have you tried to turn off compositing (desktop effects) with the key
>> > combination - Alt+Shift+F12? As your black bottom border sounds like a
>> > graphical issue.
>>
>> hjmm - or maybe... Seem to recall encountering that black space - the
>> actual desktop size was very large and my screen only showing a portion.
>> don't recall exactly what i was doing when i had that. but might be
>> virtual desktop related...
> Hi Dave
>
> I've seen a similar problem when doing a KDE version upgrade. If you right
> click on the desktop, you should see a menu with the submenu "add panel".
> If
> you select "default panel" from the submenu, it should give you a new
> taskbar
> (in windows terms) with some useful widgets on it.
>
> If this works, you can then right click on the start button on the damaged
> panel, select "panel options" and then "delete this panel"
>
> Selecting the "half moon" widget at the exterem right of a working panel
> allows you to reposition and resize it as well as adding clocks, system
> trays
> and other items of varying usefulness
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
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