KDE not displaying panel; erratic

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:22 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! 
wrote:
> 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.

Not quite right, but close. Don't use KDE2. Download and compile KDE 3, 3.0.5 
is the latest. It's quite good. 3.1 will be better, really. (FWIW, I gave up 
on XFCE a while a go, just not my cup of tea, as it were...)

In the meantime, log out, delete all the kde related files in /tmp and log 
back in. Things should be better after that.

HTH, 
Tim

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