Since updating to ubuntu natty narwhal, three or four times following messagebox appears: Failed to restart the panel No running instance of xfce4-panel was found then after confirming, xfce seems to run correctly
What happens if you save your session on logout and login again.
Unfortunatly, it makes no difference. I tried several times, with [x] Save Session and alternating not save session.
Well somehow multiple calls of "xfce4-panel -r" were made. I could fix it by auto starting a new panel if no running instance was found when launching "xfce4-panel -r", but in some cases it could be unsafe (miscommunication with dbus for example).
You could take a look in ~/.cache/sessions, see if there are multiple calls of xfce4-panel, possibly with arguments, maybe even something related in ~/.config/autostart/.
Ok, thanks, I will look at evening. If this is not the case (the .cache and .config directory shows no multiple calls) and you could apply a safe fix, that would be good.
BTW: The bug (task window appear twice: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6985): I'm not sure if this is desktop or panel (or something in xfce core (what modul is this actually)?
Cool, now it is working. I cleaned the directory of sessions (there were many entries). I also removed from session startup the "xfce setttings helper" (no hunch, what it actually does). Thank you!
settings helper handles various settings like display/mouse/keyboard etc.
ok, thank you again.
Created attachment 3277 double picture of taskswitcher window every time i hit alt-tab
Oops sorry, wrong task