Why would xfce4-panel suddenly not be started at boot/login?

[Chris G]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:44:09AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote:
> 
> >Starting xfce4-panel manually from the command line gets things working OK
> >but why isn't it getting started automatically in the normal way?  What
> >starts it?
> 
>   We see this infrequently. Using alt-f2 and entering 'xfce4-panel &' not
> only invokes the panel but has it restored to the session manager for the
> next time. If you are running it in the background when you restart it the
> session manager should add it to the tools to be restored the next time.
> 
So it's the session manager that 'remembers' to run xfce4-panel.  What
if one has turned off the session remembering, does that mean one
loses xfce4-panel, that seems a bit wrong to me.

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Chris Green