I first found Salix around two years ago, and recently started using it again. The only reason I switched away last time was because I had to run some programs on Windows that wouldn't work in WINE, but now I've found good Linux equivalents so I've been trying out LInux distros.

So far, Salix is ...

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Well, I tried running xfce4-panel from the command line but I got a bunch of errors (which I unfortunately didn't copy down). I didn't try alt-F2, so I'll try that in the future.

Thanks for telling me about /etc/skel, I'll use that in the future too.

I was experimenting with adding new panels in XFCE when the panel manager crashed and I was left panel-less. To fix this, I deleted ~/.config/xfce4/panel, which was recreated and thus reset upon logging in again.

This behavior by itself was not unexpected, but when I later encountered another ...