[xubuntu-users] Problem With Desktop When Starting X

[Vincent]

On 4/1/08, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
>    I put xubuntu-7.10 on my wife's Toshiba Techra 8000. Yesterday, when
> she
> booted the system, X came up but the panel did not load. This happens
> occasionally (only since xfce4), and is usually fixed (in other
> distributions) by right-clicking on the desktop and opening a virtual
> terminal.
>
>    However, when I tried this, all I saw was a Xfce settings dialog box
> offering
> to create a launcher as the best of four bad options. But, when I filled
> in
> the command line with 'xterm', the OK button remained inactive.
>
>    How do you suggest I access a console so I can manually start
> xfce4-panel
> running in the background, and have the session manager re-incorporate it
> for the next boot?


Perhaps you could try pressing Alt+F2? Or you could directly create a
launcher for xfce4-panel ;-)

Rich
>


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Vincent
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