[xubuntu-users] How to get rid of do-hicky on desktop <SOLVED>

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 19:11:50 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> It definitively is a panel, by just seeing a picture, it could be any
> of tons of panels. Perhaps it's unity-panel-service that gets
> started. You wrote: "I have Ubuntu running both Xfce and Openbox".
> IIUC you installed Ubuntu first? After installing Xfce and Openbox,
> did you disable all unwanted services, that are started by a default
> Ubuntu install? JFTR I don't have knowledge about Ubuntu, since I'm
> only using other *buntus, but searching the web leads to
> unity-panel-service.

Thanks Ralf, you were right.

It was this lame package called "wbar" that I had previously installed.
It's supposed to be a fast panel that goes right on the desktop, which
I need like a hen needs a flag. I had thought it was some Ubuntu thing
and hadn't worried about it while using Xfce: The desktop plays a very
minor part of my life in Xfce, unlike in Openbox.

So, after your email, I did xfce4-session-settings, looked in
Application Autostart, and the only thing remotely resembling a panel
was wbar. I was temporarily thrown off when ps axjf failed to produce
any kind of panel like thing, wbar or other, under light-dm. After
finding no other solution, I did a find command piped through a
grep for wbar, found a wbar init script, saw that the programs on there
were exactly the same as on the panel and in the same order, I apt-get
removed wbar, restarted X, and bang, the lame thing was gone.

So thank you Ralf, and thanks to all the others who helped me.

Thanks,

SteveT

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