Re: xfce panel missing on startup

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have xfce4 installed as below.  With some users on my system it works
> > as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are no panels
> > and no mouse buttons result in any menus.  I am using kdm.
> >
> > I tried removeing .config and .cache but something still seems to be
> > wrong.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions what the problem might be?
>
> maybe there is something in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession that is
> conflicting? hmmm... does kdm even look at these though?

I don't see either in ~/

Strange.  With a newly created user it works fine.  Logon using kdm, I can 
start kde and xfce sessions fine.

The home directory of the user with the problem is old and full of all sorts 
of .* directories and files.

Thanks,

C