Re: swap

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:18:29PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:42:43PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:46:35AM +0100, andy wrote:
 > 
> > I tried setting ulimit -v to 98304 and it did keep Xorg from thrashing
> > the system, it would just kill off the remote Konq and the terminal
> > window running top.  However, I've go a new problem:  My panel in Xfce
> > doesn't show up.  I tried moving my configs out of the way and I've
> > tried purging and reinstalling xfce-panel with no luck.  All that
> > thrashing and hard reboots may have damaged something.  I don't have
> > samhain to tell me if anything has changed or gone missing.  If I can't
> > solve it, I'll keep my eye on the rest of the system and if other things
> > go haywire I'll consider just reinstalling.
> 
> you have to (not at my machine!) go into the xfce settings manager and
> "allow xfce to manage the desktop" or some such. I think its under
> "Desktop" or "Window Manager"
> 
> and then make sure you're set to save the session, though I think that
> particular setting operates outside the "saved session" system.

You misunderstand.  It was working and I didn't change any of the
settings.  The panel stopped working.  Under settings, I click on panel
and nothing happens. Panel is installed, presents a button on the
settings menu, but is unresponsive.

Doug.