panel disappears

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:27 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:38 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I'm having a strange effect on my home Desktop (doesn't happen with the
> > root desktop): 
> > 
> > Each time I log on, the top and bottom panels are empty. Random
> > experimentation revealed that if I rt click the empty panel, go to
> > properties and click 'Show hide buttons,' everything appears properly.
> > This is very strange, since the hide buttons don't empty the panel, they
> > close the whole panel. And the effect of returning my panel contents
> > happens regardless of which state the 'Show hide buttons' check box is
> > in--i.e., it's just toggling it that gets the strange but beneficial
> > result of returning the contents to the visible but empty panels.
> > 
> > EB
> > 
> Update: I tried completely deleting the bottom panel and reconstructing
> it. Same problem persisted, but not the 'Show hide button' doesn't do
> the trick and toggling the 'Expand' button does it. Given how often I
> restart my laptop in a day, this is rather annoying.
> 
> Do I need to reinstall part of all of Gnome to solve this? If so, how
> would I do that?
> 
> EB
> 
The new bottom panel no longer shows the names of the minimized windows.
Also, I seem to get different results as to what will cause the icons in
the two panels to appear when I change themes (from the installed list).
But none of them allow the icons just to be there when I log on.

EB