On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 08:05 -0500, wayne wrote: > Tim replied with: > >On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:28 -0500, wayne wrote: > >> I finally decided to upgrade from my old reliable Redhat 9 to Fedora > >> 8. For the most part it works great. I am having problems with > >> GNOME_ClockApplet and GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet, where they do not > >> always appear on the panel when I log in. > > > > I think the first thing people will ask is how you did the "upgrading"? > > Did you upgrade from one to the other, over the top? Did you replace > > the old with a completely new installation on reformatted drives? > > I installed F8 on a new disk, copied everyone's /home directories to > the disk, and then created new accounts that matched the same user/group > numbers for everyone's account. > > I did it this way to preserve the original look and feel for everyone > in my family (7 accounts). This retained the single panel bar and single > "main menu" on the panel bar. I suspect that this might have something > to do with the problems I'm experiencing. ---- perhaps you want to check out Sabayon Craig