main menu bar has gone away

[Tom Ashley]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:44 -0600, Mike McNally wrote:
> OK the problem seems to be that "xfce-panel" doesn't seem to be
> starting for me. When I run it, my panel is back.
> 
> I'll try to figure out what changed that's made my panel not start
> when I log in.
> 

Mike,

The following has worked for me in the past:

1) In a terminal run: "xfce-panel &" to start the panel in the
background.

2) From the Menu, go to "Sessions and Startup" in the xfce settings
manager.  On the advance tab select the option to remember current
session.  This should cause the panel to automatically start in new
sessions.

HTH,

Tom Ashley