KDE not displaying panel; erratic

[Net Llama!]

On 12/18/02 17:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've bamboozled my wife into using Linux (told her she'd have
> to do Windoze installation herself), and for a few months all
> has been well with Netscape and kpatience.
> 
> Now, the panel has gone flaky for no reason I can think of.
> When she logs in, many times it's just not there, and she cannot
> operate without it.  I've tried a variety of things to bring it
> back, but the thing that works best is simply to log out,
> log in as ANOTHER user, open an xterm and exit, then log out
> and go back in as herself.  Go figure.
> 
> The other user has a working panel.  Always, at least so far.
> It's not clear why one has to open a window, but that does
> seem part of the magic.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue, or a less painful way to deal with
> this (like a permanent solution, maybe?).

Don't use KDE?  Seriously, there are far more stable window managers out 
there, such as XFCE.

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