Re: very confusing panel?

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:39:01 +0200, Mikael Hermansson <mikeh@algonet.se> wrote:
>I have updated my old panel with the latest from CVS...
>
>ORBit
>gnome-libs
>gnome-core
>
>But there is some problems, The panel-applets will not connect to panel
>But they will appear like own applications on the desktop, the only way
>to quit the applets is to kill them.
>
>panel gives error like:
>
>*** WARNING *** BAD COOKIE file: orbit-glue.c line: 182
>*** WARNING *** BAD COOKIE file: orbit-glue.c line: 325
>
>*** Gdk WARNING ***  XGetWindowAttributes failed on window ID 1076003898
>
>and later on:
>
>*** WARNING **: TIMED OUT waiting applet ID: 5
>
>looks like ORBit is the problem, is it?

No.

The problem seems to be that the applets are not reading the panel cookie
from your gnome config files like they should be. Are you running the applets
and the panel on the same machine?

Provide more info, etc.
-- Elliot
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