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# Chapter 10. Questions and Answers

10.1. How can I add applications, applets or anything else to the panel?
10.2. Can I have an external Taskbar just like in KDE 1?
10.3. How can I move Kicker to another screen border?
10.4. How can I move extensions to another screen border?
10.5. I want the taskbar to show all applications I'm running, independent on which desktop it is. Is that possible?
10.6. How can I access the K Menu without using the mouse?
10.7. Is there a way to add a menu containing all desktop icons to Kicker?
10.8. How can I change the color and style of Kicker?
10.9. Why is the clock showing the wrong time?
10.10. Is it possible to change the K button of the panel to another picture?
10.11. Why is my Settings menu not working?

10.1. How can I add applications, applets or anything else to the panel?

Click the right mouse button on any free space in Kicker and choose Add. From appearing submenu you can choose, what you want to add. See in Kicker Basics for more about that.

10.2. Can I have an external Taskbar just like in KDE 1?

Yes, you can just click the right mouse button on any empty space in Kicker and then choose Add, Extension and the External Taskbar.

10.3. How can I move Kicker to another screen border?

Simply drag it by holding the left mouse button on any empty space in Kicker to any screen border.

10.4. How can I move extensions to another screen border?

Just drag it by holding the left mouse button on the small handles on the left or the top of the extension.

10.5. I want the taskbar to show all applications I'm running, independent on which desktop it is. Is that possible?

Yes, click the right mouse button on the small handle of the taskbar, then choose Preferences and check Show all windows in the appearing dialog.

10.6. How can I access the K Menu without using the mouse?

Simply press Alt+F1 and it will appear.

10.7. Is there a way to add a menu containing all desktop icons to Kicker?

Just fire up Konqueror, go to your home directory and drag the KDesktop icon to any free space of Kicker, then choose Add as Quick Browser from the appearing menu.

10.8. How can I change the color and style of Kicker?

You can change the colors of the panel with the global color module of the Control Center or you can style the panel itself, see in Configuring Background tiles for more about that.

10.9. Why is the clock showing the wrong time?

On some Red Hat® systems, the clock always shows the time in GMT. This is a bug in the Red Hat® setup. To solve it, just create this symbolic link: `ln `-s` `/usr/share/zoneinfo` `/usr/lib/zoneinfo``.

10.10. Is it possible to change the K button of the panel to another picture?

Look for `$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kicker/pics/go.png` and `$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kicker/pics/mini/go.png` and replace them. Do not forget to flatten the replacements to one layer, or else you will not see anything. Create the directories if they do not already exist. Then restart Kicker.

10.11. Why is my Settings menu not working?

Your menu entries may be mixed up for some reason. Simply run kbuildsycoca on a commandline.

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