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Description of problem:
This is bug is sort of the opposite of 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166160.   
 
I used to have a blank (ugly) space always in the system tray that would 
display the authentication shield whenever I used a program that required root 
privilidge.  Now this space is gone, but the shield never shows up either, 
even when I have put in root password to run something.  Ksysguard shows that 
pam-panel-icon and pam_timestamp_c are running, but the only way to actually 
get the icon into the system tray is to kill those two processes and then 
issue the command "pam-panel-icon."  Then the white space / shield appear, but 
are once again gone when I log in next time.  (Actually, they are missing ~90% 
of the time; sometimes when I log into KDE the icon is, indeed, in the system 
tray.  I haven't been able to figure out what makes it show occasionally.) 
 
In my $HOME/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc there are these two lines: 
 
program13=pam-panel-icon 
. 
. 
. 
restartCommand13=/usr/bin/pam-panel-icon,--sm-client-id,10e1d4d474000112554038300000031200014 
 
 
If I delete these two lines, the pam-panel-icon process isn't running upon 
login, and it doesn't start when I authenticate as root. 
 
Thanks! 
 
Vesko 
 
  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
KDE 3.4.2-0.fc4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Log into KDE -- there is no white space in the system tray. 
2.  Start application (e.g. Service Manager), requiring root access; enter 
root password. 
 
   

Actual Results:  No shield appears in system tray, even though pam-panel-icon is running. 

Expected Results:  Shield should appear in sytem tray.  It should disappear (without leaving 
blank space) when exiting the program. 

Additional info:

Probably irrelevant, but I began seeing this bug around the time I switched 
the background of the panel to transparent.