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[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 08:57 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
>>Gavin Chester schreef:
> 
> 
> -snip- 
> 
>>>I've killed X on their session (ctl+alt+bckspc) and got them to log in
>>>again, and I've killed the panel as a process when running under their
>>>name (as root), and I've even rebooted their terminal.  BTW: that shows
>>>that the panel _is_ running when they are logged in.  In no case does
>>>the panel seem to come back as anything resembling "a panel" _except_ I
>>>saw the date/time plugin come back after the first restart, only.  Any
>>>clues welcome :-/    
>>>
>>
>>This sounds like a plugin may be blocking the panel, usually when one is 
>>trying to contact a network. Candidates are the mail checker and the 
>>weather plugin. You could try checking the 
>>~/.config/xfce4/panel/contents.xml (when the panel is not running) and 
>>removing the relevant sections.
>>
>>	Jasper
>  
> GREAT - thanks, Jasper this did the trick.  I took a broad-brush
> approach and removed all plugins (only had date/time, graphical pager
> and mail notification).  This left only several launchers and the Xfce4
> menu - and I got the panel back again in all its glory!  I'll try
> rebuilding it with all except the mail pager and see how well it
> lasts :-)

<plug type="shameless">

If you need a mail checker, I'd suggest using the new mailwatch plugin
Pasi and I wrote.  It does all the network access in a separate thread
and should never block the panel.  It's only available from Subversion
at present, which may be a show-stopper for you.  Really, though, the
only reason we haven't done a release is because we haven't gotten
around to it, not because it's not stable.  You can grab an SVN snapshot at:
http://xfce.org/~kelnos/xfce-snapshots/
or just pull it from the SVN repository at:
http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/xfce/xfce4-mailwatch-plugin/trunk/

</plug>

	-brian

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