I used the os-cillation 4.2RC1 installers, and everything installed fine, including xfce4-panel. Then, when I did a startxfce4, it loaded fine, except for xfce4-panel. It didn't show up. It definetly wasn't on autohide. I thought it didn't load, so I opened up an xterm and typed xfce4-panel, but it said it was already running. So then I did killall -9 xfce4-panel. A xmessage box popped that said the xfce4-panel had experienced a crash and would start again. No visible panel. Help?
Oh, running Ubuntu on a iMac G3 600.
It seems you're not running the session manager. In that case could you edit your ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc to run an xterm instead of xfce4-panel and then start the panel from that terminal? Check if there are any error messages.
Yep, same thing. It still doesn't show up. The errors infer something like the panel can't find an image.
(In reply to comment #3) > Yep, same thing. It still doesn't show up. The errors infer something like the > panel can't find an image. Can you paste the error message(s) here please?
I also used the Os-cillation installers for 4.2RC1. The first time I booted everything worked as desired, but when I removed the Mozilla launcher on the panel, the panel was removed with it. I logged out and in again, and the panel was still gone. Manually starting it gave me this: bash-2.05b$ xfce4-panel /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:13: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_color_picker.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:19: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dialog_error.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:20: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dialog_info.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:21: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dialog_question.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:22: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dialog_warning.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:26: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dnd_multiple.png" /usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-xfce-engine/iconrc:117: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "stock_dialog_warning.png" The panel is there now, but I don't know for how long it will stay. Maybe some editing of "iconrc" will solve this, or changing the "pixmap_path", but I don't know how to do that. This is on Slackware 10.0, X.org 6.8.1.
Being this the first time that I use xfce, I am trying things out. I just ran xfce4-iconbox and I got the same errors as when running the panel (see above message). Hopefully this can be tweaked and fixed easily.
Those warnings are from gtk and are not a real problem. Try to find out if there are other error messages when the panel doesn't show.
Well, I haven't had problems with the panel again. Those errors showed up because "iconrc" was looking for a file called "stock_dialog_question.png" (for example) when the file's actual name is "stock_dialog-question.png" (the second underscore is a dash). So I copied "stock_dialog-question.png" to "stock_dialog_question.png" (and did the same with all the other erroneous files) and now I get no errors. To get the panel back at startup, I opened it via a terminal, then I logged out and saved the session.
Ok, thanks. I'll leave this bug open for a little while, because I don't believe the gtk warnings can cause the panel to not show up. If you encouter the problem again please let me know, otherwise I'll close this report after some time.
Ok, this is believed to be fixed. please reopen if encountered again.