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riwa

Member

From: Lund, Sweden

Registered: 2006-04-04

Posts: 215

Panel and icons disappeared in Xfce4!

I was showing off a bit about arch to my brother (debian user) and told him that I booted X in mere 5 seconds. However, I told him that in a moment where I just (like a few seconds ago) logged out of X resulting in two in/out loggings in a very short time. The last outlogging was messed up, I pressed the quit button but it looked like it froze. I tried the desktopmenu from the right mouse-button and it worked. I reboot and strangely enough my keymap doesn't work. It hasn't changed but it doesn't work. Anyways, several reboots and re-configurations later my keymap works and I launch X again to notice that my panel (the one with the clock and mini_command line etc) is gone. The icons (or actually only the major part) are not visible in the menus (which actually was the reason I did the first reboot). So how do I get my icons back and prevent this from happening again?

/Richard

(I got my panel back by just launching it from /opt/xfce4/)

[EDIT]
Not only icons but tiles and borders are also gone.
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Sander

Member

Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 138

Re: Panel and icons disappeared in Xfce4!

My menu icons once disappeared because I'd installed a crappy vmware-player package, which modified the permissions of /usr and /etc and a few other dirs. Afaik icons reside somewhere in /usr/share, so I guess this could be due to permissions being changed to something too restrictive. Just a guess, though.

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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Panel and icons disappeared in Xfce4!

riwa, for the panel you are affected by the glib2 update. Some panel plugins are crashing now. Weather and commandline plugin are known not to work. Pacman -R them and you can restart with xfce4-panel.

AndyRTR