Disappearing Panel

[robobart]

Sometimes on login my Gnome Panel is missing.

I've been running Ubuntu since 6.04 and haven't seen stuff like this. Did 10.04 come out too soon??

Thanks!

[wilee-nilee]

Sometimes on login my Gnome Panel is missing.

I've been running Ubuntu since 6.04 and haven't seen stuff like this. Did 10.04 come out too soon??

Thanks!

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[robobart]

Sorry -

when the panel disappears, I try:

alt-f2

and then

gnome-panel

but the panel does not appear.

Any thoughts as what could be causing this?

[wilee-nilee]

I don't have any answers other then we don't know any tweaking you might have done to your OS, or if the install was just not a clean one, or if it is driver issue of some sort.
I don't think that command is a correct one. You might just try setting the startup applications 2nd tab to save sessions when you have the panel showing.


killall gnome-panel
will probably restart it even when not seen, then save the session.

Here is a link that may help.
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GNOME.html

I think your problem is isolated to your setup, and none of us know what that setup is or as I said any tweaking you have done, but maybe if your lucky, somebody can help you.

[robobart]

I think your suggestion will work,

But here is another clue. It happened again, so I used alt-f2 to start a terminal.

Then I tried to start the panel with

gnome-panel

I got this back:


Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

then I decided to move my mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen and click around, after a moment, the panel appeared!

As far as tweaks are concerned, I am running a desktop terminal via devilspie (which also doesn't show up when this happens) but that is about it.

Thanks for the suggestions!