LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

maaaaarco · 2014-10-09 22:52:44

Hi guys,

I'm quite new to Arch Linux, but i can say I'm starting to love it
So... let's talk about serious stuff.

Recently I made a system update with the command

# pacman -Syu

. Until there everything was fine, but after a system reboot my taskbar was missing!

To be more specific, I'm using LXDE as desktop environment, so lxpanel was having some trouble.
With trouble i mean that lxpanel was actually running but my taskbar didn't show up at all!

Searching around on forums and wikis, i found that the problem could be related to a recently update of the package menu-cache.

Giving a

# cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep 'menu-cache'

i found out that when I updated the system, I updated menu-cache too... but NOT lxpanel!

I solved the problem simply downgrading menu-cache

Here you can find out how to downgrade a package with pacman: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages.

I just made this post to share with you my solution, I'm actually waiting for an update of lxpanel to re-update menu-cache and see what will happen

Last edited by maaaaarco (2014-10-09 22:53:17)

Slava · 2014-10-23 07:16:12

for me removing lxde related entries from .cache and .config resolved the problem.

Last edited by Slava (2014-10-23 07:23:05)

djraymondnm · 2014-10-26 01:39:27

I have also experienced lxde not starting correctly. I think that I have tracked it down to a new version of lxsession dating to 14 Oct 2014. Deleting just the lxsession files in .config and .cache seems to solve the problem. However, one then has to recustomize one's desktop, which is annoying. (Or maybe this problem came from deleting some other lx... file! Hard to say.) The version of menu-cache doesn't seem to make any difference.

maaaaarco · 2014-10-26 09:54:17

djraymondnm wrote:

I have also experienced lxde not starting correctly. I think that I have tracked it down to a new version of lxsession dating to 14 Oct 2014. Deleting just the lxsession files in .config and .cache seems to solve the problem. However, one then has to recustomize one's desktop, which is annoying. (Or maybe this problem came from deleting some other lx... file! Hard to say.) The version of menu-cache doesn't seem to make any difference.

Your desktop configuration is placed in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/lxpanel if i remember correctly (I'm not on Arch right now). So before deleting lxsession config directory save those files before

kmiernik · 2014-10-27 08:24:50

I spend an hour today trying to solve this problem. In my case I had bare openbox instead of lxde, which was quite annoying. Anyway, I found out that the new .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart contains three new lines compared to the old one:

@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@xscreensaver -no-splash

I guess they have changed the way things start in lxde. So you don't need to destroy all your setup, just try to remove the file mentioned above, or add these three lines to the beginning of the old file.

Another issue, that could be somehow related, is that whenever I try to change icon theme the background goes grayish with no way to change this. But when I log out and log in it is back at its normal appearance. These settings are in .config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf. You might won't to remove this one as well if you have troubles starting the lxde.

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#1 2014-10-09 22:52:44

LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

#2 2014-10-23 07:16:12

Re: LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

#3 2014-10-26 01:39:27

Re: LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

#4 2014-10-26 09:54:17

Re: LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

#5 2014-10-27 08:24:50

Re: LXDE - lxpanel taskbar missing

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