On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:05, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:37:03AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > When logging in this morning, a bad surprise awaited me. Gnome logs in > > as usual, but when i go to the auto-hiding panel i have at the bottom of > > the display, instead of un-hiding the panel, the X server just dies. > > After a bit more experimenting, i think i solved the problem, i still > don't know why this happened. > > I first went to gconf-editor and marked the panel as unhided, i got to > the panel, X died, i logged in again, and the panel did not hide itself. > i then noticed that i could click on any of the icons, except the > windows list applet, or the empty space on the panel after it. I managed > to remove the applet (i could not click on the boxes for the windows, > but i could right click on the applet itself) and added it again, and > the problem went away. > > Real strange stuff.
Indeed. You should know though that an X server crash is always an X server bug. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
