Re: FOLLOWUP Re: LXDE panel disappeared
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:51:12 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue
<love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/21/2017 10:46 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:28:00 -0700 Patrick Bartek
> > <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:31:14 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue
> >> <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> [big snip]
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>
> >> Have you checked LXDE's site for this problem or posted a query
> >> about it to their mailing list, etc?
> >>
> >> I've been testing Stretch 64-bit in VirtualBox, but only with
> >> Openbox, LXDE's default window manager, that is, no desktop
> >> environment installed, and I don't experience this problem.
> >>
> >> Check in your user home directory
> >> for .config/lxpanel/default/panels and see what's listed.
> >>
> >> FYI: I'm using sysvinit as init for this test install, but have
> >> not removed any systemd stuff. Could make a difference. Who
> >> knows?
> >>
> >> B
> >
> > After adding an lxpanel in addition to the default one I already
> > had, configured it, added applets, etc, rebooted, all worked fine.
> > However, when I deleted the added panel, it along with the default
> > one vanished. But when I "exited" Openbox to a terminal and ran
> > startx, Openbox along with the default panel came back. However,
> > since I only run Openbox and not a desktop, to have lxpanel start
> > when Openbox does, I must run 'lxpanel &' it in a file 'autostart'
> > in .conf/openbox/ in my home directory. Maybe, you doing the same
> > thing might be a fix for your problem.
> >
> > B
> >
>
>
> OK, I did experiment something.
>
> What I did was I copied /.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels from working
> Jessie machine to Stretch.
>
> AND the result was success!
Great!
> The one in Wheezy has panel and left files under "panels" but on
> Stretch, there is only "panel" file.
On my tests with Stretch/Openbox, I got separate config files for each
panel.
>
> For some reason LXDE fails to create these panel files correctly and
> messes up. I don't know the mechanism of this process but something is
> not working right.
I'd contact the LXDE people and let them know.
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