[Gllug] KDE application control menu has disappeared

[John]

On Monday 20 Jul 2009 22:10:45 John G Walker wrote:
> Setting up my new machine, using openSUSE 11.1 and KDE 4, I needed to
> go into runlevel 3, which was fine. When I returned to runlevel 5
> (which I think is the one that I should be using) the KDE control menu
> has disappeared from the panel, leaving me without any means of running
> any program under KDE that doesn't have an icon on the desktop.
>
> Eeeek!
>
> What has happened? And, more importantly, how do I get it back?

For openSUSE the runlevels should be
0	Halt
1	Single user
2	Multiuser (no network)
3	Multiuser with network
4	Not used
5	Multiuser with network and XDM
6	Reboot

Right click on desktop and select 'unlock widgets'. 
Right clicking on the panel and selecting 'Panel options' -> 'Add widgets' -> 
'Application Launcher'  should bring it back.

Alternatively, open up a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and use 
rm .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
This should restore the kicker to how it was.

The last is the easiest to do and gets me out of messing with widgets so many 
times.

John
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