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Offline ranran

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Vanishing Panels
« on: March 22, 2011, 11:55:18 PM »
Hi,

the panels (top and bottom) have vanished. I rebooted and they flickered 3 times but are still gone. Any ideas?
Also, when I open Settings manager, via launcher, and try to open Panels, nothing happens.
thanks
Ranran
« Last Edit: March 23, 2011, 12:00:43 AM by ranran »
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Offline ranran

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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 01:14:16 AM »
I am not running Compiz. Here's what I get for info-
[ranran@localhost ~]$ xfce4-panel

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Internal plugins need the "X-XFCE-Module-Path" entry to work properly.

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Failed to create plugin "quicklauncher"

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Internal plugins need the "X-XFCE-Module-Path" entry to work properly.

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Failed to create plugin "smartbookmark"

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Internal plugins need the "X-XFCE-Module-Path" entry to work properly.

(xfce4-panel:8630): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Failed to create plugin "minicmd"

(xfce4-cpugraph-plugin:8633): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_container_set_border_width: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
Floating point exception
[ranran@localhost ~]$
(xfce4-mixer-plugin:8634): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed

(xfce4-mixer-plugin:8634): xfce4-mixer-plugin-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_plugin_set_card: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed

(xfce4-mixer-plugin:8634): xfce4-mixer-plugin-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_plugin_set_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER_TRACK (track)' failed

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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 01:19:48 AM »
not sure just d/loaded it saturday. how do i get version info?
« Last Edit: March 23, 2011, 01:23:47 AM by ranran »
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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2011, 06:38:14 AM »
That's a serious issue you got there.  Did you somehow upgrade your current system to XFCE 4.8?  It sounds like the windows manager is finding the wrong versions of the panels it is trying to composite. 
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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2011, 08:28:56 AM »
I had produced the same error, no idea how I did it.

search for a .desktop file (or folder), supposedly in /usr and delete it. Then reboot and you will come up with a default desktop.

Could find any way around it, neither reinstalling anything nor changes in the gui.
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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2011, 01:38:27 PM »
ranran,

If you have "Show Application Menu on Desktop Right Click" under Xfce Settings Manager > Desktop > Menus checked, you can right click on your desktop, and select "Run Program..." Enter "xfce4-panel" (without the quotes) and your panels should reappear ... and survive a reboot.

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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2011, 02:50:29 AM »
parnote,

I tried that but nothing happened, only got the same errors as ranran (see post #3), removing the .desktop file (folder) helped.
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Re: Vanishing Panels
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2011, 04:04:12 PM »
I had this yesterday, I have updated the whole system and reinstalled some XFCE stuff, but still no go.
So what I have done is deleting the XFCE hidden folders from the user's home, this solved the problem on reboot.
Obviuskly my settings where gone.
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