xfce4-panel horked?!

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hey Lonni,
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > I've been using XFCE4 on several of my boxes for a few months now, and
> > the progress has been quite nice.  This morning I ran into a nasty
> > problem where the xfce4-panel preferences appear to have gotten wiped
> > out.
> >
> > Yesterday, the panel had 5 'boxes' with various icons.  Today when i
> > logged into XFCE4, the panel has 9 icons, all them with the default
> > silver gear icon, and there are no applications mapped to any of them.
> >  Any ideas
> > on where i go to troubleshoot & fix this?  thanks!
> >
>
> I have no idea what caused this, but to try and fix it, try to first
> copy ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc.bak to ~/.xfce4/savedrc. Then logout of X, copy
> ~/.xfce4/savedrc to ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc, restart and pray your config
> wasn't overwritten yet.

This worked!  Thanks.

> Let me know if it keeps happening.

I definitely will.  Its not happened on any of the other 2 boxes where i'm
using XFCE4, just this brand, spanking, new RH9 laptop.  weird.

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