Starting the panel automatically

[Grant]

>> My xfce4-panel stopped loading automatically after a set of updates on
>> my Gentoo system.  Can anyone tell me how to get it loading
>> automatically again?
>
> Alt+F2, then run "xfce4-panel", the logout and check the save session
> tickbox (make sure nothing else is running, apps, etc), logout, log
> back in and it should be up and running.

That actually doesn't work because clicking the usual exit button only
closes the panel itself if I started it with Alt+F2.

> If not you can always add it to auto-started applications. Not sure
> which is the "proper" way to do it, as they seem like two different
> ways of doing the same thing.

Got it, thank you.

- Grant