Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

[Wander Boessenkool]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 18:41 +0800, Ian Hogben 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. :-/
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I experience the same problem too sometimes. When it happens to me I
switch to one of the virtual terminals (ctrl-alt-f[1-6]), login as root
(if you can't login as root (which is the Ubuntu-way) login as yourself
and then sudo the following) and I then execute: 'pkill -9 -u
myusername'. This kills _every_ process owned by your user. I then login
in using the gui as one of my test-accounts (everybody should have one
of those), and immediately logout again. Then when I login as myself
again everything is fine.


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