From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The Authentication Indicator always seems to'reserve' space in the KDE system tray. The First Screen shot is on loading X (before opening anything requiring root password) The second screen shot is upon opening system-config-* (a badge appears) The third screen shot is the system tray properties, the Authentication indicator is there in the left coloumn regardless of whether or not a badge is shown, allowing root access Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Stock FC4 - 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 KDE 3.4.0-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot KDE Actual Results: There is a blank space in the system tray which cannot be filled Expected Results: No space used by the authentication indicator unless 'root' acccess is allowed, in which case the badge should be shown. Additional info:
Created attachment 117848 [details] The Space which Authentication Indicator is using
Created attachment 117849 [details] Shown with the Badge
Created attachment 117850 [details] The System Tray Properties
it seems the ksmserverrc in you $HOME/.kde/share/config/ and /usr/share/config still includes the pam-panel-icon entry. You should please delete the pam-panel-icon entry in both files. You should do it before login into KDE! It's fixed in new kdebase in rawhide. Thanks for your report.
*** Bug 167825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***