I have none of the above in my system, in whatever directory.
I do have a /etc/X11/initrc/Xinitrc and Xinitrc.xfce , but adding that line does not work.

More ideas?

Forget it. Not worth the hassle. I'll wait til a real solution comes up.

This searching for non-existant files and directories is too irritating.

CW just create an .xinitrc in your home directory and add the command there.

No good, Randux. Doesn't kick it up. Tried it as just .xinitrc and as executable too...

Found out, tho, that it only crashes the bar when I have a 'code' in it for location...

Any more ideas, anybody?

Well if you aren't having luck with launching this one, until the glitch is fixed (I have no idea if anyone is even still developing the weather plugin), you will have to find another weather app.

I don't really know of any other ones that aren't huge or ugly. That is why I have been dealing with the glitch on this one for so long.

Now it's personal, though...lol

I figured it would be a simple matter to put in a spot that would work for all users, or at least one.
The code works only if I execute it in a terminal window, then when I close the window, the panel goes away.

More ideas on where to put it so Xfce4 always executes it? So far:

• /etc/X11/initrc/Xinitrc
• /etc/X11/initrc/Xinitrc.xfce4
• ~/.xinitrc

Don't work....

I don't know why it would quit the panel when you closed the terminal. "&" should put it in the background anyway.

I only turn off my computer every week or so, so I just make a script that has that line in it, and when I first get into XFCE, I just run it and then the panel is up until I shut the machine down. Closing the terminal has never been a problem for me personally.

Let me mess around with this and see if I can figure something out.

Weird. What if you make a directory named...
~/Desktop/Autostart/

and execute the command as a script whenever XFCE starts?

I think I see what is happening here.

xfce4-panel is usually started from the session manager. So if you are using the session manager, and just putting the xfce4-panel command in ~/.xinitrc, it won't work. In fact, it looks like a good deal of xinitrc isn't even read if you are using session management.

The only thing I have come up with so far is to make a script with the launch command, save that somewhere, then go into ./cache/sessions, find the session is has saved (there should only be 2 or 3 files in there), and then find where it launches the panel and point it to the script.

This works, but only as long as you don't save a new session. If you keep loading your previous one, that is fine, but if you close XFCE4 with the "Save session for future logins" option, it will overwrite the session file.

Alright, I think I have it now.

Put this into a file:

Call it "StartPanel", make it executable, and then drop it in ~/Desktop/Autostart.

The problem was, when I just had a script starting xfce4-panel in Autostart, the panel had not yet crashed, and it was unable to start a second instance of it. This will kill the panel (which is going to crash in a few seconds anyway), give it a second to die, and then start the panel again with the adjusted glibc setting.

This will take a bit longer to start the panel now, but it is better than nothing.

Actually, I wonder if you saved a session when the panel was not running, then loaded that session on subsequent logins, if you wouldn't have the problem of it trying to start two at the same time. Might be worth looking into.

That did it for this user....


Any idea on what to do globally?

xfce will launch any scripts it finds in ~/Desktop/Autostart/ if it exists. but can you launch it from the xfrun4 box instead of the terminal? usually alt & F2 will bring it up. then choose save session when you log out? this usually works for me. also I dont use the weather plugin (or the panel actually.) I like the weather desklets for adesklets (but I don't know if they have everything you want as I haven't used kweather either.)

Doesn't work at all from the xfrun4 box, read previous posts.

As stated, the solution from MS3FGX works fine for individual users, but I would like a global solution, rather than adding that in for every user individually.

When I tried to add it to .xinitrc (before the session manager kicks in), all it would do is load the panel, and nothing else. I am not sure what is wrong there.

The only thing I can think of do to this globally, and this is a bit hackish, is to rename xfce4-panel to something like "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel.bin", and then create a script at "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel" that contains "G_SLICE=always-malloc xfce4-panel.bin &".

That way, when any program or user tries to run xfce4-panel, they will actually be running a script that calls the real program with the adjusted glibc arguments.

Came across the same thing.

It's fairly easy to add another program, but this panel thing is stumping me.

As I said, now it's personal......