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Old 05-12-2009, 07:39 PM   #1
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Menus and taskbar not showing up.


Hi there.

I just booted up my laptop, running XFCE with Xubuntu kernel 28. After it went into the desktop, all i get is the desktop icons. The XFCE menu bar on top is not showing up; and the taskbar on the bottom is not showing up either. I am sure there were no changes or upgrades done the last time i shutdown the computer. It just decided not to show anything but the desktop and it's icons.

How can i tell the gui to show those things again?

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Old 05-12-2009, 11:36 PM   #2
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whenever i have a problem with the panels "menu bars" in gnome or kde I just delete their settings folder i.e .gnome or .kde folder and do a restart they are recreated on boot with default settings.
 
Old 05-13-2009, 09:33 AM   #3
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Ok, here's what i did.

I removed the files in my home directory.

.gnome2 .gconf .gconfd

I also went into .config and removed the XFCE folders. After which i rebooted. This just yielded some changes in desktop background but i still don't see the needed bars.

Went back into the GUI with ctrl+alt+F7, but that didn't do it.

Am i missing some other file?

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Old 05-13-2009, 09:36 AM   #4
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A google search found the following..


To restore the default panels open a terminal and delete the ~/.config/xfce4/panel directory:
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rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel
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killall xfce4-panel
press Alt+F2 and run: xfce4-panel
 
Old 05-13-2009, 01:57 PM   #5
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Apparently, xfce4-panel was not running. That's the problem i think, once i typed that to execute it, the bar showed up. I think, hopefully, i can take it from here. Interesting thing though, the bar is now a KDE like bar, all at the bottom. I think it's better cause my screen height gets bigger i think, u know, for apps.

Thanks too much man, you've been of great assistance.

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