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vbtricks

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-20

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gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

Salut,

trying to get openbox to work with gnome-panel. Everything works fine if I run gnome-panel when openbox is already started.

But when trying to add gnome-panel to the autostart.sh with

(sleep 1 && gnome-panel) &

as the last line, I get the error message

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The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".

Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

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for 3 or 4 applets. How to solve this?

Thanks in advance,

Stefan

canistra

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Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 66

Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

just do a : pacman -Sy gnome-applets

vbtricks

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-20

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Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

Tried installing the gnome-applets, but it still doesn't work.

samhain

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Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 39

Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

Same problem here.

It works when I start openbox using openbox-gnome-session. But I guess that's not the point.

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samhain

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Registered: 2007-07-19

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Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

I found a workaround for the problem.

Install xfce4-panel and xfce4-xfapplet-plugin and you will be able to run the gnome applets in the excellent and lightweight xfce4-panel.
It works fine for me

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stabele

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 101

Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

Too bad xfce4-xfapplet-plugin has a lots dependencie including evolution-data-server, gnome-desktop and gnome-panel. I am afraid it isn't lightweight anymore.

gauteh

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: gnome-panel not working when auto-started in openbox

anyone figured this out? still struggling.

- gaute