[Solved] Panel keeps blinking on and off

[Colt1911]

Hi Salix members;

I was a forum member over at Zenwalk (forget my username at the moment haven't gone there for a while).

Anyhow, I have a problem where the little panel at the bottom, where all the apps are, it blinks off and on upon boot-up. It stops after a while, and has done this each tiome I have installed Salix, which is about 4 times now. I tried out other distros in between, it's not like I just installed one right after the other.

Has anyone else had this problem?

*I am using the 64 bit

[thenktor]

Are you always using the same (old) /home partition? You probably should delete your session data, but I cannot remember where it is (no XFCE here).
Maybe it's somewhere in .config/xfce4/ or .local/share/

[Colt1911]

Hi; thenktor

I have just 3 partitions, root, swap, and home.

I'll dig around and see if I can find the session data.

There is an option for 'save session for future use' maybe Ill uncheck that and see what happens.




*I tried unchecking and rebooting, that had no effect.

[Colt1911]

Maybe it's somewhere in .config/xfce4/ or .local/share/

I couldn't find those files.

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I brought down the kernel source .... thought that might help

...anyhow I rebooted and it (bottom panel) flicked about 5 or 6 times then stopped.

[Akuna]

You are on the right track.

I used to have that annoying problem on some of my machines too until I unchecked 'save session for future use' & erased all /~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* files

[Colt1911]

& erased all /~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* files

Where is this how do I do it?

[Akuna]

& erased all /~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* files

Where is this how do I do it?

Method 1:
depending on your login:
look with thunar in /home/login/.cache/sessions/
(you have to first check 'enable hidden files view' in thunar's menu)
then erase all files that starts with 'xfce4-session-'

Method 2:
or else in a terminal as root:

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rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-*

[JRD]

I run only one distro (Salix 13.0 32bits) and I have the same problem...from time to time, not always !
Yes, it seems to be related to the Xfce Session management. This cause problem from the 4.0 version. I deactivated the session saving, but it seems I still have this error sometimes. I suspect something related to the systray, but not sure at all.

I will try Akuna's suggestion and see if it works out the problem.

[gapan]

I think it's something similar to this: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=260

[Colt1911]

& erased all /~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* files

Where is this how do I do it?

Method 1:
depending on your login:
look with thunar in /home/login/.cache/sessions/
(you have to first check 'enable hidden files view' in thunar's menu)
then erase all files that starts with 'xfce4-session-'

That worked Thank you very much.