minimized windows gone missing in KDE

[Nathan England]

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 09:05:33 Josef Lowder wrote:
> On my KDE system, when I minimized windows, their titles always used
> to appear in the panel (task bar) and I could just click on those
> titles to reopen them.  But recently something happened so that no
> miminized windows appear in the task bar.  How can I restore that
> function?
> 
> I have tried 'configure panel' and resetting every option in there to
> the default settings; and I've tried shutting down and restarting the
> system, but nothing I've tried so far has worked.
> 
> When I do 'ps -ef' the minimized applications still appear in the list
> of running processes, but I can find no way to reopen those running
> applications.
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It sounds like the task manager is gone. This is an applet that runs on the 
task bar itself which lists open windows.  If this is KDE 4 you will need to 
add the Task Manager applet to the panel. If this is KDE 3 you will need to do 
somethign similar, though I've been using KDE 4 for so long now I forget the 
steps to add it back in KDE 3. Right click the panel and select add 
"something" and you should get a list of things. Find task manager or task 
panel.  Sorry for the lack of information, but I hope this helps.

nathan