From kde-bugs-dist  Thu Feb 28 06:34:12 2002
From: John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:34:12 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#38365: kicker disappears under heavy load
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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 12:54 pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >Does kicker appear in the process
> > list when this happens?
>
> Don't know - I will need to set up the test again - at the time I didn't
> really think too hard - I had experienced the problem at least twice so I
> reported it but I was in the middle of compiling kde again, and I had cron
> jobs doing important backups in the background and I couldn't get at the
> menu or anything.
>
> I presume, but don't know as I didn't try it before that I can either get
> in via a RMB, alt-f2 and the run command or via ctrl-alt-f1

Yes, Alt-F2 will still work.

> QUESTION - how do I know what kicker is - all that top gives me is a load
> of kdeinit processes

ps aux | grep kicker

> >What if you turn off autohiding in the control
> > center when it happens?
>
> Not sure I understand what you mean - do you mean that with a "hidden"
> kicker as a result of the above bug to turn of autohiding?

What I was wondering is what happens if after kicker disappears as you 
describe, you go to kcontrol (running it via Alt-F2 if need be), turn off 
autohide in the panel settings, and apply. Does it reappear, or not?

Thanks for your help,
John