From kde-linux Sat Apr 17 16:30:08 2010 From: Bruce Miller Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:30:08 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Alt-F1 shortcut (Kicker) disappears Message-Id: <360597.50835.qm () web88301 ! mail ! re4 ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=127152187425018 Reply bottom posted.----- Original Message ---- > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems > Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 11:35:21 AM > Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Alt-F1 shortcut (Kicker) disappears > > In < > href="mailto:126762.5191.qm@web88305.mail.re4.yahoo.com">126762.5191.qm@web88305.mail.re4.yahoo.com>, > Bruce Miller wrote: >I have an recurrent problem with KDE 4.x in which the > Alt-F1 shortcut ceases > to function. The Alt-F1 shortcut brings up Kicker > and the panel (what, in > another OS's terms, is called the "Start > Menu"). Kicker was an application in KDE 3.x that provided one or more > docked panels. It wasn't the only one for KDE 3.x. In KDE 4.x > there is no more kicker application. Instead the panels are handled by > the same thing that handles wallpaper and widgets: plasma-desktop. As far > as Alt+F1, I seem to remember that it works with "Application Launcher Menu" > and "Lancelot", but that "Application Launcher" (the default) has issues > with it. You should read the archives, it came up earlier this > year. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. My bad. The new term is "Kickoff,"; "Kicker" is, as you correctly pointed out, the term for the corresponding KDE 3.x function. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.