Yakuake skin removes settings menu

I recently installed yakuake, and tried different themes/skins (whatever the correct denomination).

I choose one, but failed to notice that it removed the "button" to access the menu, so I can no longer access the settings and change anything, which is annoying.

I've tried purging yakuake then installing again, but no luck, the skin/theme is still there.

Using KDE 4.13.3

There may be a simple solution, and I'll feel like a fool when someone points it out, but I don't see it.


Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+,
Opens configure yakuake


You can manually edit the yakuake configuration file - open ~/.kde/share/config/yakuakerc and look for the [Appearance] section and just comment out the Skin option by adding a # character at the front of the line.

Then kill yakuake by running killall yakuake and when you start it again it should revert to the default theme.

I personally like the "Breeze Minimal" theme which doesn't have a settings button, so I use this trick to get to the settings dialog when I need to, and then set it back to the minimal theme.

If you just want to edit the global keyboard shortcut for Yakuake, though, then you can just use the standard KDE global shortcuts configuration panel - you don't need the Yakuake settings dialog for that.


Try to find where the skin/themes are stored, and delete the skin/theme. This should work, as it will no longer have the files to load the skin.