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tomsargeaunt

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Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] Plank is running but no instance on the desktop

Hi everyone,

I'm using a compiz standalone session with a doc (plank) at the bottom and and Tint2 at the top. See screenshot... http://postimg.org/image/6m9jhv5m5/full/

When I boot, plank is running but does not appear. (i.e it is visible in top, but no instance on the screen).

killing the process:

pkill plank

and starting it manually works but I would like it to all work automatically.

Here is my ~/.xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
        for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
                [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
        done
        unset f
fi

setxkbmap gb &
nitrogen --restore &
plank &
conky &
tint2 &
exec $1

I can't see anything wrong here.

I was thinking that there could be a conflict with running tint2 and plank together. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Last edited by tomsargeaunt (2014-12-27 22:01:21)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] Plank is running but no instance on the desktop

Perhaps "sleep 5; plank &" would work better.

tomsargeaunt

Member

Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Plank is running but no instance on the desktop

Thanks lucke.

I'm sure this could work, but now neither tint nor plank appeared! I'll fiddle with the timings and see if I can find something that works.

Last edited by tomsargeaunt (2014-12-27 22:15:44)

tomsargeaunt

Member

Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Plank is running but no instance on the desktop

It works!! For some reason it needs a big gap between plank and tint.

sleep 1; plank &
sleep 1; conky &
sleep 9; tint2 &

Ironically, this has actually sped up my session boot time by a good 10 seconds, but who's measuring!?! Thanks again