Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0500, volvoguy said
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:41:15 +0800, Ian Hogben <ianhogben at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > When I log in to the desktop, I don't have any taskbar/dock/panel or
> > whatever it is called. Just a blank desktop background. The only thing I
> > can do at all is to right-click on the desktop and open a terminal, and
> > from there manually type in the command-line args for whatever apps I
> > want. It doesn't help much with things like Azureus and Apollon and Gaim
> > that all stay in the taskbar. :-/
> 
> 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.

Does "killall nautilus gnome-panel gnome-vfs-daemon trashapplet" 'fix'
it?

-rob

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