Taskbar disappears in Astonomy Edition

[ka9yhd]

I have an intermittent problem of the task bar disappearing from the desktop, and the only way to get it back is to log out and back in.

[melodie]

Hi,

Try to remove it for ~/.xsession (if it is configured there as I think it might be) and activate it in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh then let us know if that helps.

in autostart.sh :

# a panel is useful
lxpanel &

?

[ka9yhd]

When I look at .xsession in my user account:

!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop -d &

/usr/bin/lxpanel &

case $1 in
openbox)
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
;;
*)
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
;;
esac


and in autostart.sh

# a panel is useful but in this version it is started from ~/.xsession file
# un panel est utile, mais dans cette version il est démarré depuis le fichier
# ~/.xsession -qui tient lieu de .xinitrc
# tint2 &
# fbpanel &
 lxpanel &
# sleep 1

[melodie]

When I look at .xsession in my user account:

!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop -d &

/usr/bin/lxpanel &

case $1 in
openbox)
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
;;
*)
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
;;
esac

Hi ka9yhd,

In .xsession file : remove the part I put red on. In .autostart.sh file : get sure that in the .autostart.sh file you also have a line with:
/usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop &

but no "-d" as in the one above ! It's a change that has occurred already some time ago when we got a new pcmanfm version which don't accept being in the background _while_ managing the desktop.

[ka9yhd]

Hi Melodie:

I have deleted the two lines:

/usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop -d &

/usr/bin/lxpanel &

From .xsession and I found a line in .autostart.sh

# /usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop --daemon-mode &

So I changed it to:

/usr/bin/pcmanfm --desktop &
 
And saved the changes.  I will let it run and see what happens.

Thank you.

[ka9yhd]

Today the task bar did its disappearing act again. 

A couple of days ago I did some updates and noticed there was an update to Openbox, so I double checked the changes and they are still there.

[melodie]

Today the task bar did its disappearing act again. 

A couple of days ago I did some updates and noticed there was an update to Openbox, so I double checked the changes and they are still there.

Hi ka9yhd,

Sorry I can't test at once, I just moved and can't do much at the moment. I suggest you do a move on the ~/.config/lxpanel to ~/.config/lxpanel-back, restart X, and see what will happen after ? (Until I can test intensively... I personnally still use tint2 as a panel... )

[ka9yhd]

Sorry I can't test at once, I just moved and can't do much at the moment.

Hi Melodie:
This is not a major issue, all I do is log out and back in to restore it.
Please take your time.  Moving can be very stressful..... and is one way to really know how much stuff you have. 

[melodie]

Hi,

Just an idea, what if instead of logout/login you would start lxpanel from a (user) console, this way :

$ lxpanel

(no &, in order to see if something special comes out in the console). And by the way, when the panel crashes, you would display the content of the file ~/.xsession-errors and copy it's full output here, it might help find out what is going on.

Regards,
Mélodie