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XNova42

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Registered: 2015-04-30

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] XFCE panel doesn't start with the rest of XFCE

Immediately after starting XFCE with startx I'm greeted by the message: "No running instance of xfce4-panel was found," below that is says to save the session on logout so the panel will be there next time (of course doing that didn't seem to help), and then I get the option to cancel or execute. Executing gets the panels back up and running but then I get the mysterious message "Modifying the panel is not allowed: Because the panel is running in kiosk mode, you are not allowed to make changes to the panel configuration as a regular user." What?

Also worth noting is I tried adding xfce4-panel to the list of startup commands in the settings and that didn't help.
Also something odd that happens is that whenever I play music on the bandcamp website the panels stop working and disappear. That's a slightly irrelevant problem but I thought I'd mention it.

So how do I get these panels to start like they'e supposed to? And what the hell is kiosk mode? And bonus points to you if you can figure out why they stop working on bandcamp of all places.

EDIT1: It's worse than I thought, the panels are killing themselves on youtube as well. I've been having trouble with my fiio e10k and now this... I'll probably make a thread about the audio elsewhere. As for the panels: help please.
EDIT2: Using

rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/

fixed the initial problem of the panels not starting with everything else. However, the panels disappearing while on some websites playing media is still happening. I'll create a new thread for this specific problem later.

Last edited by XNova42 (2016-03-16 20:22:13)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE panel doesn't start with the rest of XFCE

For the panel disappearing on certain titles, see: Fonts in Window Title Crashing XFCE4 Title.

For your other issues, good luck.

XNova42

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Registered: 2015-04-30

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] XFCE panel doesn't start with the rest of XFCE

For the panel disappearing on certain titles, see: Fonts in Window Title Crashing XFCE4 Title.

For your other issues, good luck.

I installed the fonts the arch wiki mentioned but it didn't seem to help at all
EDIT: I followed another suggestion on the wiki, to delete corrupt session files or something along those lines, and it works now. The command it said to use was:

rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/

As for the panels killing themselves mysteriously on some websites, that's still happening

Last edited by XNova42 (2016-03-16 08:24:01)