From quanta  Sat Oct 24 04:33:22 2009
From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:33:22 +0000
To: quanta
Subject: Re: [Quanta] Lost menu bar
Message-Id: <200910232333.22399.drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=125635884804693

On Thursday 27 August 2009 12:36:30 am marbux wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I was wrestling with another issue and without thinking long enough,
> hid the Quanta menu bar. Now I can't get it back. Is there a keyboard
> shortcut that will turn it back on? I checked the list archives but
> didn't pop anything.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paul
> 

Sorry for the late reply, but I wanted to add something so it will be present 
in the archive.

To get around the problem with updates over-writing my quanta toolbar (the 
system wide toolbar) I just include a check in my .bashrc file that checks to 
make sure the toolbar is mine and not the default. If a newer version has 
overwritten my toolbar, then the check routine copies mine back. For most 
distros, this will require sudo or root access.

If you are interested, simply include the following function in your ~/.bashrc 
file and then every time you login, it will check to make sure your toolbar is 
still yours (of course the lines beginning with '#' are just comments):

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#
## functions                                                                
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#

chkquantatb() {
qpath=/opt/kde3/share/apps/quanta/toolbars/html
stdtb=standard.toolbar.tgz                     
dcrtb=standard.toolbar.tgz.dcr                 

if ! diff ${qpath}/${dcrtb} ${qpath}/${stdtb} > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    sudo cp ${qpath}/${dcrtb} ${qpath}/${stdtb}                     
fi                                                                  
}                                                                   

<snipped stuff>


#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#                                            
# config checks                                                                                                         
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#                                            
                                                                                                                        
  chkquantatb                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                        


Just make sure you use the correct qpath path above and save a copy of your 
toolbar either in the directory where it normally resides under a different 
name (mine is 'standard.toolbar.tgz.dcr' above) or you will need to adjust the 
location in the copy call here:

    sudo cp ${qpath}/${dcrtb} ${qpath}/${stdtb}
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This just keeps the installer from outsmarting me :p

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