Re: GNOME panel wont pop-up

[Brian Papa or Jennifer Fleet <jenbrian early com>]

It is version 1.0.4-34...I will look into upgrading gnome-core.

Your other suggestion has temporarily solved the problem also.

Thanks for the help,

-Brian

 Gwynne wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:32:21PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian Papa or Jen Fleet wrote:
> >
> > If I kill the current panel process and start a new one I always get a
> > message to pop indicating Gnome has detected a panel is already
> > running....should it start a new one?  If I say yes then the new panel
> > appears (minimized), but it still will not pop-up.  I am not sure why
> > Gnome thiks there is one running after I kill the process.  If I do:
> > ps -ef | grep panel  No processes are indicated (except for the grep).
> >
> > Either way, the gnome panel will not pop-up no matter what I have done.
>
> This is a problem that used to come up a _lot_ last year. I haven't
> seen it in ages, though. What version of gnome-core are you running?
>
> If you are running 1.0.40 or earlier, I would definitely recommend
> upgrading. As well as cool new features, there have been lots of
> stability changes.
>
> In the meantime, one way to remove this problem is to remove your
> ~/.gnome directory. This will delete all the preferences you have
> set in GNOME, however.
>
> You could try to get around this by moving it to a different
> directory, and then when you have started GNOME again and tested
> that it works, try replacing the newly-created .gnome sub-directories
> and files with the ones from your saved version. You may well
> re-introduce the problem, but you should be able to narrow down
> the bit that's causing it, and then just remove that bit.
>
> I hope this helps -- but I would definitely consider upgrading.
> A slightly out of date but comprehensive list of packages is
> at http://www.gnome.org/go/
>
> Telsa