Bug 221836

Summary:	Can't always bring up task manager context menu to change settings
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	abrahams
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, aseigo
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description abrahams 2010-01-08 19:28:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

According to the KDE User Manual, it should be possible to bring up the Task Manager context menu and change the Task Manager settings by right-clicking at a place between the indicated tasks.  That doesn't work.  What does work is having an odd number of tasks so that there's a vacant slot in the task display.  Right-clicking on that vacant slot brings up the context menu correctly, enabling one to select "Task Manager Settings".

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-01-09 00:12:43 UTC

click on the toolbox icon on the far right in the panel and then you can right click anywhere you wish and get that menu. this isn't optimal, however, and we should do something about it. so right now i view the above as a workaround rather than a proper answer to this issue.

btw, which kde user manual was this that gave such advice? (so i can track it down and fix it, since it is incorrect)

Comment 2 Dario Andres 2010-01-09 03:10:22 UTC

Merging with bug 203912. Regards

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 203912 ***

Comment 3 abrahams 2010-01-09 04:37:08 UTC

From http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-workspace/plasma/panel.html:

The taskbar is up next on the panel. It shows an area for all open windows on all desktops by default. You can make it show all open windows on the current desktop only by checking Only show tasks from the current desktop when you right click on the task manager, **between two windows**. The size of the text on the taskbar items can be set in System Settings under the Appearance->Fonts->Taskbar. Right-clicking on the taskbar brings the Settings dialog where you can choose several options to customize your taskbar.

Comment 4 abrahams 2010-01-09 04:40:42 UTC

One other thing: the toolbox icon might be at the right end in the default configuration of the taskbar, but in general it need not be there or, apparently, on the taskbar at all.

Comment 5 abrahams 2010-01-09 04:42:53 UTC

I meant to say the panel, not the taskbar.

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-01-09 05:00:12 UTC

it's always there unless you lock the widgets, in which case none of the configuration features are available.