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tyto

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Registered: 2015-04-01

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disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

Hi everyone,

I really like the i3 window manager but  still want some of  the goodies that come with a full grown desktop environment. without having to go through all the trouble of setting every last bit up manually. This is where xfce comes in.

I followed this guide:
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=6831.0
and everything works just fine. Looks like after trying many different WMs and DEs I finally found the right setup for me. Except for one small detail.

Every time I log in to xfce I get multiple warnings  "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" - Of course that is correct. I do not want/use that panel. Is there a  way to disable that warning?

Cheers
tyto

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

According to the instructions from the link you posted:

Now you have to change the restart style of 3 items. xfwm4, xfdesktop and xfce4-panel needed "Never" as restart style. After that you can quit everyone of them, just click "Quit Program" for xfce4-panel, xfdesktop and xfwm4.

Did you do this? From Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Session tab?

Or alternatively, if you have no use for xfce4-panel, then uninstall it.

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tyto

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Registered: 2015-04-01

Posts: 3

Re: disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

According to the instructions from the link you posted:

Now you have to change the restart style of 3 items. xfwm4, xfdesktop and xfce4-panel needed "Never" as restart style. After that you can quit everyone of them, just click "Quit Program" for xfce4-panel, xfdesktop and xfwm4.

Did you do this? From Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Session tab?

Yes I did. I also tried deleting the sessions folder. both did not help ...

Since there are other users on the computer who are using the panel uninstalling it is not a good option either.

Any other Ideas?
Thanks
tyto

sixsixfive

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Registered: 2012-04-08

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Re: disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

Why do you want to use xfce-session? it doesnt make any sense to me if you don't use the panel or xfwm? Why not lauch a pure i3 session and add those apps you want from xfce to your xinitrc?

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tyto

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Registered: 2015-04-01

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Re: disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

@ sixsixfive

A pure i3 works great 96% of the time.
But i3 comes without all the little helpers like network or power managers,  notifications, easy to use GUI tools, ... - I could get most (all ?) of that  by digging through various documentations for several days, or I could get the same result in 10 minutes by running i3 on top of xfce.  So I just went the lazy way.

MountainDewManiac

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Registered: 2013-03-24

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Re: disable "no running instance of xfce-4 panel was found" warning

In that case, why use i3 at all? If Xfce has the things you actually want/need, I mean?

Regards,
MDM

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