From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Using KDE (the most recently up2date version) under RH8.0 once the rhn-applet-gui has been removed, there is no direct way to restore it to the desktop. The RedHat Alert Notification Tool says, during the initial configuration: > If you do not wish to have this application appear on your panel, > click the 'Remove From Panel' button below. Once removed, you can > return it to your panel at any time by choosing 'Red Hat Network > Alert Notification Tool' from 'Add to Panel|Applet|Monitors' in the > Panel menu. There is no "monitors" under the KDE (right click)|Add|Applet menu. If one runs /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui by hand from a terminal window, then the applet does re-appear. However the applet will not reappear after logging out and back in. We have gone to a reasonable effort to setup KDE desktop environments for a number of systems. We would prefer to NOT simply blow away our entire KDE setup simply to have KDE rebuild a virgin desktop with the rhn-applet-gui that starts a login time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.0.3-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.remove the rhn-applet-gui from a KDE desktop environment 2.try to restore the applet 3.logout and log back in Actual Results: Once the rhn-applet-gui is removed from a KDE desktop, one cannot add the applet back in such a way that it will reappear at the next login Expected Results: By right clicking on the KDE menu bar and selecting Add|Applet, one will be able to select a "monitor" (as per instructions from the RedHat Alert Notification Tool) that will add rhn-applet-gui back to the desktop. Additional info: I had a dialog with the RedHat network folks about this problem. They suggested that I encountered a bug and requested that I report it. Here is a sample of my most recent exchange with the RedHat Network Team: From rhn-feedback+278759-35811.com Tue Mar 18 00:15:40 2003 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:15:36 -0500 To: Landon Noll <redhat-mail> From: rhn-feedback+278759-35811.com Subject: Re: Re: how do I bring back to rhn-applet-gui? Reply-To: rhn-feedback+278759-35811.com Dear Sir, Thank you for writing to RedHat network. Yes, you are right,I think it is a bug. Bugs can be reported at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla -- the product is "R ed Hat Network", and the various components are prefixed with "RHN/". Please be sure to read the FAQ and review all of the open bugs before submitting your bug. It is a good solution to add the /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui command to the login command list. Feel free to write us back. Regards RedHat Network Team Landon Noll <redhat-mail> writes: > > > By mistake I removed the rhn-applet-gui from > > > my RH8.0 KDE desktop. > > > You can do the following to re-building your desktop. > > 1.Run these command at level 3 > > rm -rf ~/.gc* > > rm -rf ~/.gnome* > > 2. log in system at level 5 > > I performed the following, but my KDE setup did not regain the > rhn-applet-gui > applet. I did login via Gnome and it does show up under that > environment. > > I'm hoping you won't tell me that I need to blow away my KDE environment. > A fair amount of effort went into its 12 screen setup and preferences ... > > When I launch rhn-applet-gui by hand, and go thru the preferences menu > I read: > > If you do not wish to have this application appear on your panel, > click the 'Remove From Panel' button below. Once removed, you can > return it to your panel at any time by choosing 'Red Hat Network > Alert Notification Tool' from 'Add to Panel|Applet|Monitors' in the > Panel menu. > > There is no "monitors" under the KDE (right click)|Add|Applet menu. > (Perhaps the above text refers to Gnome?). > > Is there a way to have KDE execute certain commands at login time? > > If there is, then I could simply add the /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui command > to the login command list. > > chongo () /\oo/\
If the KDE login launch enhancement (see bug #86280) had been in place, then I could have worked around this problem by simply adding /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui to my KDE 'launch these programs at login time' list.
I'm also having the same problem in red hat 8 and 9 in gnome. In my case, the icon of rhn were very distant of the clock and were not possible moves it for next to the clock (right click, move and to drag for next to the clock) the area that the icon occupied, were one 3 times bigger that it. When I removed, I did not obtain more to add following the steps informed for the assistant. When I call the rhn-applet-gui for the console, it does not initiate, I left about 30 minutes and nothing...
This appears to have been fixed in RH9 and RHEL3 with the KDE RedHat Network Alert ICON menu item (under System Tools).d