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

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote:

> Yes, I realise that, but *some* parts of the X GUI have to be started
> up *always*, otherwise you'd see a blank screen with no way of
> starting any applications.  I was just meaning that it feels like
> xfce4-panel is such a fundamental part of the xfce desktop that it
> should always be started.
>
> Are there not some things that xfce4-session will start up even if they
> haven't been saved in a previous session?  There must be some sort of
> default initial set of things that xfce4-session starts up.

   That's for the developers and gurus to address. I've been happily using
xfce for a dozen years or so and accept its quirks.

Rich