panel goes missing after kernel upgrade

[David Mohr]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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.

Disown is a bash-ism, maybe you are using a different shell? It might
just work without it as well, though I'm not 100% sure.

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

You should not need to if you save your session when you log out.

> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Trotter

~David