KDE not displaying panel; erratic

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, 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.

That might work.  Does XFCE have a panel, or some other warm fuzzy
way to start favorite applications?  I'm /not/ going to try to get
my wife to use a command line.  Don't ask.

++ kevin


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