Broken my desktop - no ctrl-alt-del or pwr-off click button

Hi Folks,

I was customising my taskbar as per this post: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=736

One of the things I did was to remove the keyboard plugin as I decided I was getting fed up of accidentally going into oriental mode, but I guess that plugin also manages the on-screen power button and ctrl-alt-del functions as they have stopped working - well, ctrol-alt-del now locks the unit until you enter the user password.

The keyboard plugin is not in the list of (re)installable modules so can anyone tell me how to re-enable it!?

Thanks

 

If you post the following we'll be able to see what you got and tell you how to fix it:

1) A directory listing of your panel configuration:

Code:

ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/panel

2) The contents of a file within that directory:

Code:

cat ~/.config/xfce4/panel/panels.xml

Cheers.

 

Here you go. I also now have no battery indicator and a taskbar that's 1/3 height of the whole screen but if I kill the panel process and restart it I get the correct size ones with my customisations, but the big one comes back after a reboot. I'd be happy if I could just get a copy of the relevant default config files to put back.

Code:

[user@localhost panel]$ ls -l ~/.config/xfce4/panel
total 28
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  22 2008-09-27 00:10 actions-1.rc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  61 2008-09-27 00:10 clock-1.rc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  35 2008-09-27 00:10 gohome-1.rc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 851 2008-09-27 22:49 panels.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  14 2008-09-27 00:10 systray-1.rc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  76 2008-09-27 00:10 tasklist-1.rc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 145 2008-09-27 00:10 xfce4-mixer-12224679390.rc

Code:

[user@localhost panel]$     cat ~/.config/xfce4/panel/panels.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE config SYSTEM "config.dtd">
<panels>
        <panel>
                <properties>
                        <property name="size" value="10"/>
                        <property name="monitor" value="0"/>
                        <property name="screen-position" value="12"/>
                        <property name="fullwidth" value="1"/>
                        <property name="xoffset" value="0"/>
                        <property name="yoffset" value="470"/>
                        <property name="handlestyle" value="0"/>
                        <property name="autohide" value="0"/>
                        <property name="transparency" value="20"/>
                        <property name="activetrans" value="0"/>
                        <property name="show-hidebutton" value="0"/>
                </properties>
                <items>
                        <item name="gohome" id="1"/>
                        <item name="tasklist" id="1"/>
                        <item name="systray" id="1"/>
                        <item name="xfce4-mixer" id="12224679390"/>
                        <item name="clock" id="1"/>
                        <item name="actions" id="1"/>
                </items>
        </panel>
</panels>

 

Create a file called xkb-plugin-1.rc
containing:

Code:

display_type=0
per_app_layout=1
default_group=0

In the panels.xml file add this line in items section as 3rd item:

Code:

<item name="xkb-plugin" id="1"/>

Cheers.