Re: Panel/Session Deja Vu

["Mohammad Abdin" <rafat kcs org kw>]

I agree - I have kind of the same problems. It gets very frustrating if 
something causes X to crash.
> 
> I have a question about using the session manager to call the panel.
> 
> It seems that the SM maintains different panel configurations in the
> ~/.gnome/panel.d directory. While this seems powerful at first glance,
> I am beginning to wonder why this would be done...perhaps for
> cuncurrent logins by the same person on different terminals ?
> 
> My problem is this: 
> 
> If strange things happen to the the gnome-session configuration,say
> due to a crash for instance, the panel starts with a different
> configuration the next time.  Currently, 5 different configs have
> collected in my panel.d directory.  Sometimes it starts with the
> "out-of-the-box" edge panel, other times it corresponds to the
> "default" directory with settings I was using a month ago.  It seems
> the "default" is used outside of the session manager, which is how I
> originally set up my panel.
> 
> Given Gnome's philosophy of having independently useful tools, I find
> it somewhat irksome that the setup is so sensitive to how I start the
> panel.  My fix now is to go in and manually edit the "session" file to
> point it at the correct panel config again.  I'm not about to complain
> that this is difficult , but it seems like the new/average user will
> lose faith quickly when their custom panel setup disappears/re-appears
> or is otherwise altered without their consent.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me here ?
> 
> thanks,
>  Matt Martin
> matt.martin@ieee.org
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