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[Solved] Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 29. Mar 2010, 22:28
by 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
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 29. Mar 2010, 22:38
by 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/
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 29. Mar 2010, 22:47
by 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.
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 01:13
by 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.
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 03:34
by 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
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 03:51
by Colt1911
Akuna wrote:
& erased all /~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* files
Where is this how do I do it?
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 05:35
by Akuna
Colt1911 wrote:Akuna wrote:
& 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-*
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 08:55
by 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.
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 10:59
by gapan
Re: Panel keeps blinking on and off
Posted: 30. Mar 2010, 11:45
by Colt1911
Akuna wrote:Colt1911 wrote:Akuna wrote:
& 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.