Getting rid of XFCE4-panel...using xfce4 and Ubuntu

jagibbs · 12-22-2005, 11:11 PM

I'm using XFCE4 on Ubuntu.

Which file would I need to comment out some lines in so that "xfce4-panel" does not load upon startup? I tried [apt-get remove xfce4-panel] and I couldn't even log in because my session would crash. I had to reinstall the panel to load xfce4 successfully. I don't see an obvious place to get rid of the panel at the bottom.

thanks

riwaJR · 04-06-2006, 06:00 AM

There's an easier way if you don't want to go about configuring your start-up files. You can just kill it with top.

Code:

195508/home/riwa/# top

top - 19:58:09 up 19 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.22, 0.11
Tasks:  64 total,   5 running,  59 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.6% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 95.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    384060k total,   181484k used,   202576k free,     6976k buffers
Swap:   262576k total,        0k used,   262576k free,    90468k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2109 riwa      15   0 98.2m  41m  12m S  0.0 11.1   0:38.00 firefox-bin
 2112 riwa      15   0 30600  15m  12m S  0.0  4.1   0:01.06 sim
 2065 root      16   0 36844  12m 5108 R  3.6  3.3   0:13.30 X
 2134 riwa      15   0 29892  11m 8948 S  0.0  3.0   0:00.90 knotify
 2141 riwa      16   0 14432 9076 6652 R  0.0  2.4   0:00.64 terminal
 2125 riwa      16   0 23424 8948 7064 R  0.0  2.3   0:00.06 kded
 2096 riwa      16   0 14240 8684 5796 R  0.3  2.3   0:08.54 xfce4-panel
 2122 riwa      16   0 22896 7476 6076 S  0.0  1.9   0:00.02 klauncher
 2094 riwa      15   0 12072 7224 5496 S  0.0  1.9   0:00.65 xfdesktop
 2115 riwa      17   0 22720 7056 5472 S  0.0  1.8   0:00.03 kdeinit
 2090 riwa      15   0 11576 6268 5144 S  0.0  1.6   0:00.37 xfwm4
 2092 riwa      15   0 11208 6252 5140 S  0.0  1.6   0:00.36 xftaskbar4
 2119 riwa      16   0 22524 5924 4576 S  0.0  1.5   0:00.00 dcopserver
 2137 riwa      15   0  9224 4880 3732 S  0.0  1.3   0:01.42 artsd
 2087 riwa      15   0 12736 4624 3044 S  0.0  1.2   0:00.17 xfce-mcs-manage
 2085 riwa      15   0 10492 4256 3484 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.13 xfce4-session
 2062 riwa      15   0  3220 1780 1388 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.02 bash
 2157 root      16   0  2940 1756 1352 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.01 bash
 2143 riwa      15   0  3196 1716 1332 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.02 bash
 2104 riwa      21   0  3148 1448 1112 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.01 run-mozilla.sh
 2100 riwa      18   0  3016 1432 1124 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 firefox
 2069 riwa      20   0  3016 1404 1108 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 sh
 2049 root      16   0  2188 1048  832 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 login
 2181 root      16   0  2012 1016  800 R  0.0  0.3   0:00.04 top
 2156 root      16   0  2212  876  736 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 su
 2083 riwa      16   0  2016  784  688 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 dbus-daemon
 2064 riwa      16   0  2504  720  600 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 xinit
 2082 riwa      16   0  2724  648  516 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 dbus-launch
 2142 riwa      19   0  2104  616  520 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe
 2005 root      15   0  1800  588  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.08 syslog-ng

Then type: k 2096 (or whatever PID the job has). Save and exit and it won't bother you again!

/Richard