KDE not displaying panel; erratic

[Aaron Grewell]

XFCE is quite usable (and did I mention blazingly fast?), but different
enough from what she's used to that I'm not sure she'll be happy with
it.  You might want to look at Blackbox, which is both fast and familiar
(looks like WinXX).  Fixing her panel issues is probably just as simple
as renaming her .kde directory and restarting KDE so it makes her a new
one.  She will lose all her prefs, however.

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 11:13, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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
>