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shakebake

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Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 51

[Solved] need help - lost all my panels

I installed some programs last night and when I booted up this morning I have no panels.
All I have is the desktop with icons on it.
When I opened the terminal and typed xfwm4 --replace
I get xfwm4-WARNING Failed to connect to session manager.

Any help appreciated.

secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: [Solved] need help - lost all my panels

xfwm is the window manager, it has nothing to do with the panels.
Maybe the session cache got corrupted.
First try starting the panel with
xfce4-panel &

Anyway, your panel settings are safe in ~/.config
You can also clear the session cache: logout, ctrl+alt+f2, login in the text console and
rm -rf .cache/sessions
then ctrl+alt+f1 (or ctrl+alt+f7, depending on the distribution) and login again.

Last edited by secipolla (2012-06-21 13:50:05)

shakebake

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Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 51

Re: [Solved] need help - lost all my panels

Thanks secipolla!
That did the job.
I'm learning more everyday.