Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

Wander Boessenkool wander at tomaatnet.nl
Mon Dec 27 15:02:53 UTC 2004


Ian Hogben said:
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> Wander Boessenkool wrote:
> | 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.
>
> Hrm... I tried this, but still no good. No panel or anything. Everything
> must be invoked from a terminal.

You can also try removing your .Xauthority and .ICEauthority files (there in
your home-dir)(do this from a virtual console, not when your in a GUI



>
> Does anyone know of any resources out there that could help me
> troubleshoot this problem? I don't even know if it would be Xorg or
> gnome or something else. I am completely lost.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian.
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