On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > On 10/15/2017 11:55 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 10/15/17, A_Man_Without_Clue <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 10/15/2017 06:57 PM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>>> On 10/15/2017 08:32 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have been running Debian Stretch with LXDE for about 1 week. >>>>> >>>>> I turned on the PC this morning and and found out that the main LXDE >>>>> panel at bottom (default panel) is gone. >>>>> >>>>> I had added additional panel at the side with few icons and also had >>>>> changed the back ground image. I didn't do anything fancy other than >>>>> that. >>>>> >>>>> The newly added panel was displayed but was missing some icons, only >>>>> showing default desktop PC looking icons. I rebooted to PC to see if it >>>>> would make differences. All icons on the newly added panel came back but >>>>> the bottom menu panel is still missing. >>>>> >>>>> What went wrong and why? >>>>> How can I get the bottom panel? >>>> >>>> >>>> I gave up. >>>> >>>> What I did was I deleted my account and added myself again. >>>> >>>> But it's good to know how to restore the default settings if there is >>>> the way. >>> >>> >>> I don't believe this.... >>> >>> Same thing happened again to newly created account.... >>> I don't know what caused this. I did same thing. Added new side panel, >>> and changed background image.... >>> >>> Clueless now. >> >> >> The only thing I can think of is... did you try running your cursor >> (mouse pointer) all the way off the screen in the area where that >> panel usually sits? That would rule out that it's somehow being >> toggled into that hide-n-seek feature that those have.. >> >> A quick search looking for possible keyboard shortcuts (to hide and >> show our panels) reminded me that you could try ALT+F1 to see if that >> brings up your Applications menu or at least something similar. >> Disclaimer is that might not be an LXDE shortcut, but it *is* one for >> XFCE4. I like to think something nice and helpful like that is >> *universal*. :) >> >> If ALT+F1 works, it would tell you if your panel is still there or >> not, anyway. If that doesn't work, maybe another Internet search will >> reveal a keyboard key combination special to LXDE that you could try.. >> >> You could also try "ps aux | grep panel" and/or "ps aux | grep >> lxpanel", too. That might help show if the panel is even active. As an >> example for mine just now, "grep panel" brought up "xfce4-panel". If >> anyone knows a different grep [variable/value] would instead be >> reflected for LXDE's panel(s) in that output, please help share.. >> >> I had an experience like this a long time ago, but can't remember >> what. I do remember fighting it for a very frustrated extended period >> of time, though. If that experience comes back to mind, I'll come back >> and add to this... >> >> Cindy :) >> > > > Thank you for your input. > No, it wasn't minimizing feature of the panel. The panel was completely > gone. > Alt + F1 brings the menu on the LXDE but I did not try that. > > What I have found out is that if I add the panel in addition to default > one, the default panel disappears after reboot. Some icons on the newly > added panel also disappears. AND I can not delete the newly added panel. > > What I had to do is that I had to re-create my account, this time not to > mess with desktop panel. > This never happened on Jessie, Wheezy and Squeeze. > > Very frustrating because I like to use additional panel on desk top. >
I just tried other newly installed Stretch. Same problem. I guess this is Debian Stretch specific problem.
