[ltp] Still Panel Problems

[Tod Harter]

Well, I'm not a Gnome expert, but...

normally when X starts, the script /usr/bin/X11/startx is invoked, which in 
turn calls xinit (which is yet another shell script), which calls a LOT of 
other startup scripts, see 'man startx' and 'man xinit', but it seems at 
least on my Mandrake box that eventually it all boils down to a call to the 
script /usr/bin/startgnome, you should be able to verify this by typing the 
command

chksession -x=Gnome (or -x=KDE etc) which returns the command line used to 
invoke whichever window manager you are using (or generally another wrapper 
script that starts your toolbars etc). Sadly in my system startgnome pretty 
much just calls /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is a binary. Reading the man 
page for gnome-session indicates that it uses the files ~/.gnome/session and 
~/.gnome/session-options files. You might try just deleting ~/.gnome/session 
as that indicates gnome will fall back to a default file. 

My guess is the most likely scenario is that your ~/.gnome/session file is 
corrupt somehow, maybe due to a crash of the desktop or your system. Hope 
that is of some help to you. This is some pretty twisted stuff... ugh! 

On Friday 14 December 2001 07:46, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I still have problems with Redhat 7.1, Gnome and Sawfish.
> Everytime I log (graphical mode), I just have the desktop and default
> icons. If I manually start panel, I get an error "Desk Guide Alert" stating
> I am not running a compliant panel. Each icon on the desktop appears as a
> task in the panel and the cursor is a black X, when I start and
> application, it has no "enveloppe", that is I can't move or resize it
> because there is noblue line at the top with the buttons. I switched to
> "twm" and got things quite back.
> But I hate "twm" and want Sawfish back, and I can't activate it (trying to
> switch shiws the countdown to activate, then fails).
>
> Any idea?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Philippe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles H. Root, III" <chazroot@chazroot.com>
> To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Panel in RedHat?
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Right click on an empty portion of your desktop. Then in the pop-up menu
> > click on New Terminal. When the terminal window opens, type "panel" at
> > the command line and hit enter.
> >
> > That should do it for you.
>
> (...)
>
> > Charles H. Root, III
>
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