Taskbar loses content

[gokee2]

I have Kubuntu Intrepid upgraded from hardy

I had compiz enabled but have been running into text not appearing problems which I am soon going to report under a bug in compiz. I disabled compiz by doing killall compiz.real and not killall compiz-decorator. Anyone know a better way to get out of compiz?

Now when I go over my taskbar with my mouse and back off the content goes away. I can move my mouse on and off the taskbar again to get the content back. I have attached a small video of the problem.

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

Somehow it got assigned to "Tagua" instead of plasma (or kde). It will not let me change it to plasma or kde.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Changed to kdebase.

To exit out of Compiz gracefully in KDE4, please use Alt-F2 and enter "kwin --replace" (without the quotes). Use "compiz --replace" to get Compiz running again. Does this solve your problem?

Best wishes,
Fab

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

I did "kwin --replace" now I have a non-working taskbar. Everything except the K menu shows up but nothing works. I guess I will have to logout/login? I tried doing "compiz --replace" but although compiz took over my taskbar still did not work.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Not good. I assume the taskbar works when you disable Compiz as a whole from startup?

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

I did a logout/login and did the kwin --replace and now have the problem I started with back. How do I turn compiz off on startup?

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

I am not really familiar with the KDE autostart mechanism, but presumably you must have entered a command to start Compiz with your session somewhere? How did you install Compiz? Basically, there's a command or script somewhere that starts it with your session. You need to disable that.

[gokee2 (adsarebad)]

I am not really sure how I got compiz to work. It was almost a year ago. I will poke around some more tomorrow and see if I can remember.