Restarting Your Kicker
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Sometimes, in KDE, Kicker (the taskbar) decides to stop responding to your input - everything else works just fine, but not Kicker.

Or sometimes, you accidentally Xkill your taskbar... Whoops!

Well, here's how to fix this problem without restarting KDE.

If Kicker isn't responding to your mouse clicks or key presses, then press CTRL+ALT+ESC. This will turn your curosor into the skull and cross-bones icon. Now click on Kicker somewhere.

Kicker is now dead. If you did this by accident, the next step is where you would read to fix it also.

Now you have a desktop, icons, and possibly windows opened, but no taskbar. To restore it, press ALT+F2. This will open up the Run Command dialog.

Type in kicker and then click Run.

Kicker has returned!

I know, I know... It ain't much of a tutorial... But realize that some people have asked this question on IRC and have posted on forums about it.


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