Re: Why oh why is Gnome eating my panel! (Frustration == MAX)

[Govind Salinas <warder pcisys net>]

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:51:49 Stan Brown wrote:
> 	I am just about rady to throw in the towel, and try a different
> 	aproach.
> 
> 	I started a couple of weeks ago with a clean Redhat 6.0 install to
> 	configure a machine for a bunch of novice users. I wanted to set up a
> 	nice defaul Gnome environemt for them.
> 
> 	I went trhough and did all the setups by hand. Then I found Gnome would
> 	misplace the panel. Without it you can't even log out cleanly.
> 
I've had a similar expiriance. I installed my RedHat 6.0 and set up Gnome but
When I loged out and back in it would not load up.  Occasionally it would give
me a dialog box saying that there was a panel already started and if I would
like to start another one.  I'd click yes and my panel would come up.  It 
would also constantly loose the applets I had loaded, only binging them up 
seemingly at random.  But after setting it up a few times and then turing the
automatic session saving and saving it manually ( I think this helped ) it seems
to have setteled down.

Now I'm pretty happy with it.

> 	I appealed to this list and it was sugested that I install Redhat;s
> 	update rpm's for all the Gnome related stuff. 
> 
> 	The I atempeted to mass produce an envrionment for these suers. I never
> 	did get this quite right, so finally I have up, created new user ID;s
> 	for these folks, and satrted over tonite to create the environments one
> 	by one by hand. Well at this point i have created 3, and 2 of these
> 	users have lost the panel again!
> 
> 	Needless to say I am frustrated. 
>
So was I, but I liked the panel so much I didn't want to give up.
 
> 	The only clue I have is that both of the users who have lost the panel
> 	have a core in there home directories, it's from the cdplayer aplet.
> 
> 	Is this a clue, Can I posible recover these users without having to
> 	start over for the 3rd time!
> 
> 	And finally, is this stuff just not stbale enough for production use?
> 	Should I look at altenatives?
> 
> 	Please can anyone provide some help here, I am pulling my hair out!
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    843-745-3154
> Westvaco
> Charleston SC.
> -- 
> Windows 98: n.
> 	useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
> 	a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
> 	originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
> 	company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
> -
> (c) 1999 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
> 
> 
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