You can reload the panel without having to log out. Press Alt-F2 and type killall gnome-panel in the run dialog. The panel will reload automatically after you kill it.
If you are short of resources you might want to try installing a lighter desktop such as OpenBox On 5 February 2010 16:13, David A. Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: > If I don't wait a LONG TIME ( maybe 20 Minutes ) with the GDM login screen > displayed, before trying to login, there is a very high probability I will > get several "Error: There was a problem loading Gnome Applet __ whatever. > Delete [ ], or Don't Delete [ ]." boxes. > > Pretty consistently, if I immediately log OUT, then log back in, the same > things will load without problems. > > The other "annoyances" are plausibly "just" resource shortages. This one > smells more like a race condition when gnome-panel is trying to start its > applets. > > -- > David A. Cobb -- computing t-rex > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
