Xfce4 Crash: Need Help Quickly -- FIXED!!

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Bo Thide' wrote:

> Some of the problems you describe have occurred here quite frequently.

Bo,

   In a previous version of Xfce4 I had the panel disappear a couple of times
on each host her, but that was easily fixed by running 'xfce4panel &' and
letting the session manager learn to put it back up the next time.

   More recently -- last week -- the wallpaper was trashed from an abortive
attempt to upgrade to the -4.4.0 release. That was fixed by switching
wallpapers (a nice change, I do admit.)

   But, today's problems are a first.

> The primitive workaround is to first start X by running initx and then to
> run startxfce4 in the xterm window that initx pops up.  This workaround is
> typically needed after I move from one IP address to another (which I do
> very frequently).

   Running xinit didn't do anything ... but I looked more closely at the
error messages on the console and resinstalled pango. That did it! Whew!

   How I managed to trash that yesterday while struggling to get g-wrap
properly installed so I can configure and build gnucash, I've no idea. But,
I sure stepped on it very hard.

Thanks very much for replying,

Rich

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