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James_Lochhead
January 28th, 2011, 01:58 PM
Hi everyone,

As stated in title, my plasmoids are strecthing across the whole screen with no resize option, as shown in the following screenshot:

http://img24.imageshack.us/f/snapshot1cj.png/

I have not modified the widget size from default in any way. I am currently using the newly released KDE 4.6 (as you can see), however, I was experiencing this problem on KDE 4.5 as well so I don't think that it is relevant.

Does anyone have a solution or some further information on this problem please?

inobe
January 28th, 2011, 03:53 PM
that is very odd behavior, all the years using kde i have never seen this.

it must be a setting that followed you via upgrade ?

have you ever reset kde's desktop, if not maybe you should try ?

James_Lochhead
January 29th, 2011, 02:28 AM
have you ever reset kde's desktop, if not maybe you should try ?

Thanks, a simple rm -R ~/.kde/ worked and my plasmoids are now functioning. Now I can get back to discovering the mysteries of the bouncy ball...

As for what caused the problem I think it was either:
1) Bad plasmoids downloaded from the "Get New Widgets" dialog.
2) An upgrade.

CraigPaleo
January 29th, 2011, 07:43 PM
I tried that bouncy ball when I first tried KDE 4. I don't know how but somehow I managed to get it bouncing so fast I couldn't turn it off. :lolflag:



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