problems with multiple panels being started

[Grant Likely <grantlikely home com>]

Has anybody seen this behaviour?  I'm still having problems
with the gnome panel, and nobody has offered any suggestions.

Thanks,
G.
> I've noticed this problem over the last couple of releases
> of gnome.  When I start up gnome-session, it restarts all of
> the programs that were running during the last session, 
> including the panel, but then it goes and starts up a second
> panel which interfers with the first.  However, it doesn't
> do this all the time.  It's as if there is a race condition
> on the starting of the second panel.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Here's what I have done:
> I got the latest sources as of Feb 4
> Compiled them on RedHat 5.2
> deleted my old .gnome and .gnome_private dirs
> modified my .Xclients to look like this:
>    #!/bin/sh
>    icewm &
>    exec gnome-session
> started X and setup the panel the way I like it
>    (one edge panel on the bottom and a corner panel on
>    each side of the screen at the top.  About 8 applets
>    are running in the panel: pager, mount*3, mailcheck,
>    clock, and some monitors)
> Shutdown gnome and then log back in (I use xdm)
> 
> Thanks,
> Grant.