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

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Pete Toscano wrote:

> the panel always loses any mods i make to it.  every time, 100% of the
> time.  nothing i do makes it better, even turning on the automatic
> session saving.  i've even asked for help on this list multiple time,
> but nobody has been able to help.
> 
I have the same problem. It seems that the directory name
that panel puts into the session file never changes, i.e.

7,id=117f000002000093657389300000160320008
7,RestartStyleHint=2
7,Priority=40
7,Program=panel
7,CurrentDirectory=/home/norman
7,DiscardCommand=rm -r /home/norman/.gnome//panel.d/Session-aAYPwp/ 
7,CloneCommand=panel --sm-config-prefix /panel.d/Session-aAYPwp/ 
7,RestartCommand=panel --sm-config-prefix /panel.d/Session-aAYPwp/ --sm-client-id 117f000002000093657389300000160320008 

but the latest panel session is Session-mbAeGP

total 11
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Sep  9 20:35 Session-mbAeGP
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Sep  6 00:58 Session-aAYPwp
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Sep  6 00:51 default
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Aug 29 21:45 Session-5oMAfF
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Aug 29 21:44 Session-sBs8oQ
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Aug 18 01:25 Session-2MYmuK
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Aug 17 23:06 Session-4nxTHQ
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Apr 24 18:03 Session-b00406
drwxr-xr-x   2 norman   users        1024 Mar  7  1999 Session-b00377

renaming the panel session directory does not work because the panel
session files have full paths to the applet files, e.g.

[Applet_2]
id=Launcher
parameters=/home/norman/.gnome//panel.d/Session-aAYPwp/Applet_2.desktop
position=831
panel=0
right_stick=true


Norman