User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 After building the latest 4.4 (actually 4.3.90.1), I restarted and found that the panel does not appear anymore. It is actually not running (did ps -ax). I tried to start it manually (xfce4-panel) and panel appeared, along with a new taskbar. (There was already a taskbar installed and visible). I could not move the taskbar or the panel with the options - they all acted on the first taskbar,,, Just to be sure, I recompiled the panel, and found no errors. Re-installed it too, with the same problem Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just start xfce... 2. 3. Actual Results: No panel appears Expected Results: Panel visible When called manually - no errors appear in the terminal window.
Just to be sure - it happens with the default theme...
The 'other' taskbar you see is from the old version. You can get rid of it by typing 'pkill xftaskbar4' (or xfce4-taskbar?). I have no idea why the panel wouldn't start by default, and I don't think I saw that before...
These are the tasks which start automatically: 30079 ? Ss 0:09 xfce-mcs-manager 30081 tty2 S 0:09 xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a800650001118419729000000173 30083 tty2 S 0:07 xftaskbar4 --sm-client-id 11c0a8006500011184197300000 30085 tty2 S 0:04 xfdesktop --sm-client-id 11c0a80065000111841973100000 I killed xftaskbar4, and started xfce4-panel. Worked fine, but the Panel manager and the Taskbar manager in the System menu don't work - position has to be changed from the 'properties' of the panel. I'd like to suggest: - remove the unused items from the System menu - add the manager for the new panels. - name the panels somehow - Panel 1 and panel 2 doesn't say much... I liked the old sizing mechanism much better - changing only the horizontal size makes more sense to me than scaling the height and width simulataneously (particularly with the coarse control of 1 height pixel)... Switching from 'Normal width' to 'Full width' is also too coarse (IMHO). Thanks for the hint, I'm available for tests if necessary to reproduce the problem. Hope that after saving the session all will start correctly again. John
I believe this is all fixed in the 'new' 4.4 panel. Feel free to reopen if not...