On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:22 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > On 12/18/02 17:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I've bamboozled my wife into using Linux (told her she'd have > > to do Windoze installation herself), and for a few months all > > has been well with Netscape and kpatience. > > > > Now, the panel has gone flaky for no reason I can think of. > > When she logs in, many times it's just not there, and she cannot > > operate without it. I've tried a variety of things to bring it > > back, but the thing that works best is simply to log out, > > log in as ANOTHER user, open an xterm and exit, then log out > > and go back in as herself. Go figure. > > > > The other user has a working panel. Always, at least so far. > > It's not clear why one has to open a window, but that does > > seem part of the magic. > > > > Does anyone have a clue, or a less painful way to deal with > > this (like a permanent solution, maybe?). > > Don't use KDE? Seriously, there are far more stable window managers out > there, such as XFCE.
Not quite right, but close. Don't use KDE2. Download and compile KDE 3, 3.0.5 is the latest. It's quite good. 3.1 will be better, really. (FWIW, I gave up on XFCE a while a go, just not my cup of tea, as it were...) In the meantime, log out, delete all the kde related files in /tmp and log back in. Things should be better after that. HTH, Tim -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, Gnome 2.x, Xfree86 4.2.0 11:00pm up 4 days, 14:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
