On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:38:44AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 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. I mention that because I had my xfce stuff disappear the other day after an upgrade/reboot and that was the problem. And just to clarify (at my machine now) it was xfce settings -> Desktop -> allow xfce to manage the desktop. is xfce4-panel running? what happens if you start it from a terminal? A
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