Re: LXDE panel disappeared
On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
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> On 10/15/2017 11:55 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>> On 10/15/17, A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/15/2017 06:57 PM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
>>>> On 10/15/2017 08:32 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been running Debian Stretch with LXDE for about 1 week.
>>>>>
>>>>> I turned on the PC this morning and and found out that the main LXDE
>>>>> panel at bottom (default panel) is gone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had added additional panel at the side with few icons and also had
>>>>> changed the back ground image. I didn't do anything fancy other than
>>>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>> The newly added panel was displayed but was missing some icons, only
>>>>> showing default desktop PC looking icons. I rebooted to PC to see if it
>>>>> would make differences. All icons on the newly added panel came back but
>>>>> the bottom menu panel is still missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> What went wrong and why?
>>>>> How can I get the bottom panel?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I gave up.
>>>>
>>>> What I did was I deleted my account and added myself again.
>>>>
>>>> But it's good to know how to restore the default settings if there is
>>>> the way.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't believe this....
>>>
>>> Same thing happened again to newly created account....
>>> I don't know what caused this. I did same thing. Added new side panel,
>>> and changed background image....
>>>
>>> Clueless now.
>>
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is... did you try running your cursor
>> (mouse pointer) all the way off the screen in the area where that
>> panel usually sits? That would rule out that it's somehow being
>> toggled into that hide-n-seek feature that those have..
>>
>> A quick search looking for possible keyboard shortcuts (to hide and
>> show our panels) reminded me that you could try ALT+F1 to see if that
>> brings up your Applications menu or at least something similar.
>> Disclaimer is that might not be an LXDE shortcut, but it *is* one for
>> XFCE4. I like to think something nice and helpful like that is
>> *universal*. :)
>>
>> If ALT+F1 works, it would tell you if your panel is still there or
>> not, anyway. If that doesn't work, maybe another Internet search will
>> reveal a keyboard key combination special to LXDE that you could try..
>>
>> You could also try "ps aux | grep panel" and/or "ps aux | grep
>> lxpanel", too. That might help show if the panel is even active. As an
>> example for mine just now, "grep panel" brought up "xfce4-panel". If
>> anyone knows a different grep [variable/value] would instead be
>> reflected for LXDE's panel(s) in that output, please help share..
>>
>> I had an experience like this a long time ago, but can't remember
>> what. I do remember fighting it for a very frustrated extended period
>> of time, though. If that experience comes back to mind, I'll come back
>> and add to this...
>>
>> Cindy :)
>>
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>
> Thank you for your input.
> No, it wasn't minimizing feature of the panel. The panel was completely
> gone.
> Alt + F1 brings the menu on the LXDE but I did not try that.
>
> What I have found out is that if I add the panel in addition to default
> one, the default panel disappears after reboot. Some icons on the newly
> added panel also disappears. AND I can not delete the newly added panel.
>
> What I had to do is that I had to re-create my account, this time not to
> mess with desktop panel.
> This never happened on Jessie, Wheezy and Squeeze.
>
> Very frustrating because I like to use additional panel on desk top.
>
I just tried other newly installed Stretch. Same problem. I guess this
is Debian Stretch specific problem.
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