panel goes missing after kernel upgrade

[Globe Trotter]

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:

> From: David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: panel goes missing after kernel upgrade
> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "XFCE general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 3:28 PM
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Globe Trotter
> <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a strange problem on my Dell Precision 650
> running Fedora 9. I did a yum update (had to remove an
> ancient version of avahi which had decided to stick around
> at the last upgrade to Fedora 9 from Fedora 8 with rpm -e
> --noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7) and then I logged out and
> rebooted. After things came up, I do not have the xfce
> panel. How do I get this back? Any suggestions, please? I
> would not like to rebuild my panel from scratch.
> >
> > Sorry I am not very well-versed with xfce: just use it
> because it is neat and lightweight.
> 
> Try running "xfce4-panel & disown" from a
> terminal.
> 

Hi, 

Thanks very much! I get my panel back now, but I do get a command not found for disown:

% xfce4-panel & disown
[4] 4473
disown: Command not found.


 Do I need to do this every time I log in from now on?

Many thanks and best wishes,
Trotter