Hey guys. I was messing with widgets and i changed the settings on one and now my toolbar is totally unusable. Is there anything I can do about this? Every time i log in it’s all totally unusable.
You should be able to right click the panel and go into edit mode, then do whatever you want to it so that it’s usable again. Edit mode is the same mode you would have been in when you were messing with widgets. If I recall correctly, you can also right click on the desktop and add the default panel back to your layout.
Hey Paul,
Nope wasn’t able to.
I fixed this by deleting the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file in .config.
Everything was totally broken because of it. basically no use of my panel whatsoever.
I believe what caused this was playing with network speed and changing the format to “bar graph” or “pie chart”.
It seems to be better for now.
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Wow. OK, but you got your panel sorted out after taking out the file? Awesome!
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Yep. It was for sure the widget that caused the issue. I’m not skilled/meticulous enough to go through my entire config file and find “exactly” what the error was.
I appreciate your help though anyways. I always know there’s someone here looking to help.
I ruined my system the same way tinkering with widgets, Only I tried to change to a bar graph for the system monitor widget and it wiped my desktop of all panels and widgets and made it unresponsive. I gave up and reinstalled my system and won’t tough widgets again.
Another way is:
- Enter edit mode
- Click on the panel, remove the panel from the panel popup menu
- At the top menu “add new panel” → “default panel”
Added desktop-configuration, kde-plasma
Edited your title to be clearer. Also, you can mark your favourite answer, as this is kind of resolved.
Did removing that config file restore the panel to default, empty it or remove it?