I lost my panel

[Stephan Arts]

On 1/14/07, Frank Bell <frankwbell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have just started mucking about with XFCE and really like my system
> performance using it as an interface.  Apps I use frequently, such as Open
> Office, load noticeably faster than under KDE.  (In the past, I've used
> KDE primarily, with occasional forays into Fluxbox.)  Indeed, I've chosen
> to flee to it from KDE.
>
> So I was messing around today and lost the panel.  I was SUed as root
> installing some cursor themes from xfce-look.org when it happened. The
> subdirectory structure under /home/[username]/.config seems okay.
>
> The menu and taskbar are still there, and the panel configuration window
> loads.  I've tried changing the panel configuration and saving the change,
> doing that and exiting and restarting XFCE, doing that and rebooting, etc.
>
> I even uninstalled the XFCE package and reinstalling it, using the
> Slackware package tool, but still no panel.
>
> Any suggestions as to where I should look?

Execute xfce4-panel manually

You probably saved the Xfce session without the panel present. ;)

when you logout, check 'save session' and you will have a panel again.

Stephan