Re: Panel keeps disappearing

["Michael D. James" <docjava ricochet net>]

I think I reproduced this problem a couple times by having a Netscape
modal dialog come up when the panel was still being assembled.  (FWIW
the modal dialog was asking for username and password to access my
work web-based MS-Outlook email server.)  It hasn't happened to me
since I took Netscape out of the picture.


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> Christiane Tom wrote:
> > 
> > First, my appologies if this question has already been asked and
> > answered - I did look through the list archive without finding a
> > solution to my problem.
> > 
> > I'm running RedHat 6.0 on my computer, and as a user I'm
> > running the Gnome desktop. I love it but I've been having a
> > problem with it - my panel keeps disappearing... it's the second
> > time now, I log on and my desktop comes on, but without any
> > panel. Sometimes I'll get a box that tells me that a panel is
> > already running, do I want to start a second one (and no matter
> > if I say yes or no, I still don't get my panel back) but usually
> > there's no error message. The first time it happened, I ended up
> > deleting the user, then going back in root and creating a new user,
> > then configuring my panel again. This time I'm not sure *what* to
> > do, and I don't want to go through the matter of creating a new
> > user again if this problem is going to keep on happening.
> > 
> > Does anybody have a hint for me ?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
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> Hi Tom and all
> Actually, I have got the same effect from time to time.
> Without any apparent reason, at startup the panel starts
> and starts one applet after the other, and then:
> ooops -> it dissapears.
>
> Actually, it is sufficient to simply delete the ~/.gnome/panel.d
> directory.
> When having done that and starting the panel again a newly reinitialized
> panel
> shows up, but with all the settings and applets gone :-(((
>
> One solution has been offered by Tom Gilbert:
>
> <snip>
> > Well, my personal solution is a couple of lines in my .xinitrc
> > 
> > cd ~/
> > rm -rf ~/.gnome_backup
> > cp -R ~/.gnome ~/.gnome_backup
> > 
> > Every time gnome starts, the backup is created. If Gnome screws up, I
> > just replace .gnome with the backup, *before* starting gnome again
> > (the backup would be overwritten).
> <snip>
>
> cu
> Hanspeter
>
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