Re: gnome panel

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

> 
> 
> > > > I have found that having lots of applets in the panel can cause a cascade
> > > > of panels at startup. I'm not sure whether it's a crashing applet that's
> 
> > Linux 2.0.36, glibc-2.06, P233MMX, and the above was happening with gnome
> > from CVS from about one week ago. This evening I will try to reproduce
> > the problem using current CVS. At the moment it's working fine with the
> > character picker, modemlights, mailcheck and clock applets.
> 
>   I'm having this problem with the latest released software -
> gnome-core-0.99.2, gnome-libs-0.99.2, glib-1.1.12, gtk-1.1.12, etc.  Also
> using Linux 2.1.132, glibc-2.0.7, on a P166.  How it happens seems to
> change, but the end product is the same - death to my applets.  Or at
> least some.  I'm running the clock, the fish, modem lights, and mailcheck. 
> Clock seems to be the one bombing out, and generally takes mailcheck with
> it.  The other two seem to be working fine.. everything has been pretty
> stable since I've stopped trying to load clock.
> 
>   -Eric
> 

With current CVS I can still produce the problem. The way the panel
behaves at startup seems to be somewhat random, although I'm strongly
suspecting the mailcheck/clock applet now. Running the panel from the
commandline and not from gnome-session, the problem seems to be gone
now.

Ronald