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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 20/01/2010 16:50, Chris G wrote:
> 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.

That's the dev pov too, as it seems.
> 
> If xfce4-session isn't running then xfce4-panel is one of the things
> that's started up automatically by xfce4's xinitrc file.

Yes.
> 
> 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.

Sure there is:

corsac at hidalgo: grep -v '^#|^$' /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc
[General]
SessionName=Default
SessionName[de]=Standard
SessionName[ja]=標準
DisableTcp=True
[Failsafe Session]
Count=4
Client0_Command=xfwm4
Client0_PerScreen=False
Client1_Command=xfce4-panel
Client1_PerScreen=False
Client2_Command=Thunar,--daemon
Client2_PerScreen=False
Client3_Command=xfdesktop
Client3_PerScreen=False

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis