wbar & XFCE start-up sequence

mduno · 2010-01-18 15:57:57

Hi -

I've been using wbar on an older DELL laptop with Linux Mint 7 - XFCE and have been noticing that when the system launches wbar shows up with a black rectangle behind it. If I right mouse click on the black rectangle it disappears and the desktop appears behind wbar.

Is there some way of changing the start-up sequence for XFCE so that wbar starts last?

Regards,

Dave

etnlWings · 2010-01-19 05:18:11

I've had similar issues with compiz and xpad. Remove wbar from your session/autostart list and replace it with a script containing the following:

#bin/sh
sleep 5
wbar

This will result in the script doing nothing for 5 seconds, before executing wbar. Don't forget to make the script executable.

ManOfSteel · 2010-01-19 10:26:08

Isn't it possible to just execute a single-line sleep 5 ; wbar at startup instead of a script?

mduno · 2010-01-19 18:19:02

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I'll give them a try.

Dave

etnlWings · 2010-01-20 00:30:35

ManOfSteel wrote:

Isn't it possible to just execute a single-line sleep 5 ; wbar at startup instead of a script?

I have no idea. I know <command> && <command> doesn't work.

mduno · 2010-01-25 02:22:54

Creating a simple script as mentioned above did the trick. I did try executing a single line from the Session and Startup GUI, but that didn't work.

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