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

[Chris G]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:13:33PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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
> 
Aha!  Thank you.  So in the absence of any saved session xfce4-panel
shouls be started up, just as I thought (and as it should be).

-- 
Chris Green