Re: Removing a (empty?) corner panel causes craziness

[Lars Erik Kolden <larskol ifi uio no>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:

I had the same problem. I deleted a lot of files I had lying around from
older versions of gnome in addition to the ~/.gnome directory. I'm not
sure which of them did the trick, but it might be something like that.

Lars Erik Kolden


> Package: panel
> Version: CVS 03-10-99
>   
>   I had three corner panels: one in the lower left, one in the lower right,
> and one in the upper left.  The upper-left one was empty (because I removed
> all applets from it), so I decided to remove it.  A few seconds later, panel
> died with a GdkBadPixmap.  When I restarted, it had lost my launchers from the
> lower-left panel (not sure what error messages it displayed, sorry) so I added
> them again.  The removal hadn't been saved so I decided to test it again (being
> unsure whether that had really been the cause).  Boom.  Everything died again.
> This time, restarting panel gave me two panels (lower-left and lower-right,
> two sets of launchers and applets--the applets from the lower-right panel
> went to the lower-left and vice-versa; in addition, the lower-left panel
> got a second set of launchers (!!).  In addition, I got the following messages:
> 
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
> ** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
> 
>   so I suspect that somehow it lost track of which panel was which internally.
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
>   Daniel
> -- 
> Anything that can go wrong, wfortune: segmentation fault, core dumped
> 
> 
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