Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

[volvoguy]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:57:38 -0800, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
<crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0500, volvoguy wrote:
> > I've had similar problems with Hoary for at least the past few weeks.
> > Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've found that if I can
> > kill X somehow, and kill all the GDM processes, and "sudo gdm" again,
> > it works on the second try. Rebooting the machine seems to help
> > sometimes too. In my case, I can't even click/right-click anything on
> > the desktop, so I'm stuck switching to another terminal.
> 
> You should only need to log out of your X Windows session, log in using
> a console, kill any gnome daemons, and log back into X Windows.

Right - I realize that. When you can't click on anything, launch a
terminal or switch to a different console, you're pretty limited in
your troubleshooting steps. :o)


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Aaron

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