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

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote:

> 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.

Chris,

   If there was no session manager the system would have no idea what you
wanted to display when you started X. After all, you could have icons (for
that Microsoftish look) or a taskbar rather than a panel. There is a
plethora of Xfce options and the system doesn't know what you prefer unless
you store those preferences someplace. The session manager is such a place.

   Even with all this, I find that some applications just do not
automatically invoke, others do most but not all of the time, and the rest
are restored to various virtual desktops consistently. Shrug.

Rich