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
