[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#293721: xfce4-panel: lost all entries

[Simon Huggins]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:31:53PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:42:16AM +0100, Michael Below wrote:
> > I am unsing xfce4 via startxfce (from .xsession). When I used it for
> > the first time, I got a panel with some preset entries in it, like
> > mozilla etc. I customized this a bit (adding firefox and weather,
> > removing mozilla), and it kept the changes, but one day all entries in
> > the panel were gone. I added some objects using the "add object"
> > ("Neues Objekt hinzufügen") context menu: firefox, pager, weather
> > forecast, logout. Today, these entries are gone again, the panel is
> > just two double dotted lines in a grey box.

> Hmm, strange bug.  What happens if you rm ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc (or just
> move it out the way)?

> Can you track it down to adding a particular plugin which is doing this?

> > On this system I am following testing quite closely. Yesterday I did
> > an update again, which involved changes in KDE (3.3.1 to 3.3.2) and a
> > new version of the "hicolor" icons I was using. I suspect that maybe
> > the update to the icons confused xfce somehow(?). As a related issue,
> > today I can't find the "hicolor" (or "Hicolor", this wasn't
> > consistent) icon option in the xfce menus anymore, the icon style
> > seems to be changed towards "FreeDesktop". Don't know if this matters.

> Hmm, I've not seen this problem either on my laptop where I run 4.0.x

Did you ever fix this?  Does 4.2.2 fix it for you?

Simon.

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