Desktop annoyance #3: Desktop Applets frequently break during login

Bob Hazard linuxoflondon at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 6 04:55:47 GMT 2010


You can reload the panel without having to log out.  Press Alt-F2 and
type   killall gnome-panel   in the run dialog.  The panel will reload
automatically after you kill it.

If you are short of resources you might want to try installing a
lighter desktop such as OpenBox

On 5 February 2010 16:13, David A. Cobb <superbiskit at cox.net> wrote:
>  If I don't wait a LONG TIME ( maybe 20 Minutes ) with the GDM login screen
> displayed, before trying to login, there is a very high probability I will
> get several "Error: There was a problem loading Gnome Applet __ whatever.
> Delete [ ], or Don't Delete [ ]." boxes.
>
> Pretty consistently, if I immediately log OUT, then log back in, the same
> things will load without problems.
>
> The other "annoyances" are plausibly "just" resource shortages.  This one
> smells more like a race condition when gnome-panel is trying to start its
> applets.
>
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