Bug 68232

Summary:	klaptop applet displays in upper left corner, not in kicker
Product:	[Unmaintained] klaptopdaemon	Reporter:	David Guembel <david.guembel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Paul Campbell <paul>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description David Guembel 2003-11-14 19:35:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.93)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice) 
OS:          Linux

The klaptop daemon's applet, which displays the current battery state etc. does not show up in the part of kicker where all other applets do (kmix, klipper, kwallet,..), but in the upper left corner of my desktop. Restarting the applet manually fixes this for the currently running session, but after the next login, the problen reappears (and can be temporarily fixed using the same method again).

I have provided a screenshot of the relevant area of my Desktop at www.emeto.de/tmp/klaptop-bugreport-screenshot.png

Comment 1 Paul Campbell 2003-11-15 00:51:24 UTC

I believe that this happens if you have installed a version of KDE3.2 over the top of a KDE 3.1 or older distribution.

The problem is that there is no longer a klaptopdaemon program (it's now a kde daemon and shares a process/thread with lots of other daemons). If your saved session includes "start klaptopdaemon" it will start the old one as well.

The solution: remove any old copies of klaptopdaemon from your disk (or do a really fresh install) - do a new 'save session' from the K menu - logout/login again go to the laptop control panel and turn on the battery display again

(Note: having said this I have heard of unconfirmed problems with the laptop kicker icon  and the video mode kicker icon occasionally getting stranded like this - this may relate to the recent kwin changes and is a different bug)

Comment 2 Maksim Orlovich 2003-11-15 02:54:37 UTC

This is actually a systray/kwin bug. But there are other copies of the same issue around in bugzilla, too.

Comment 3 Paul Campbell 2003-11-15 03:02:20 UTC

Maksim - see the note above - I believe it could be either - I've already had one other person report the 'old klaptopdaemon binary still hanging around' problem

Comment 4 David Guembel 2003-11-19 09:23:13 UTC

Subject: Re:  klaptop applet displays in upper left corner, not in kicker

On Samstag, 15. November 2003 00:51, you (Paul Campbell) wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From paul@taniwha.com  2003-11-15 00:51
> ------- I believe that this happens if you have installed a version of
> KDE3.2 over the top of a KDE 3.1 or older distribution.
>
> The problem is that there is no longer a klaptopdaemon program (it's now
> a kde daemon and shares a process/thread with lots of other daemons). If
> your saved session includes "start klaptopdaemon" it will start the old
> one as well.

> The solution: remove any old copies of klaptopdaemon from your disk (or
> do a really fresh install) - do a new 'save session' from the K menu -
> logout/login again go to the laptop control panel and turn on the battery
> display again

I have tried removing execute permissions from /usr/kde/3.1/bin/
klaptopdaemon an otherwise acted as you suggested, but the problem 
persists :-/


Greetings,



David

Comment 5 step247 2006-02-20 11:21:33 UTC

this problem is back in KDE 3.5.1 and so is the "keyboard layout applet displays is in upper left corner" (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66062)