On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:51:12 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/21/2017 10:46 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:28:00 -0700 Patrick Bartek > > <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:31:14 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue > >> <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> [big snip] > >>>> > >>>> Thank you for your input. > >>>> No, it wasn't minimizing feature of the panel. The panel was > >>>> completely gone. > >>>> Alt + F1 brings the menu on the LXDE but I did not try that. > >>>> > >>>> What I have found out is that if I add the panel in addition to > >>>> default one, the default panel disappears after reboot. Some > >>>> icons on the newly added panel also disappears. AND I can not > >>>> delete the newly added panel. > >>>> > >>>> What I had to do is that I had to re-create my account, this time > >>>> not to mess with desktop panel. > >>>> This never happened on Jessie, Wheezy and Squeeze. > >>>> > >>>> Very frustrating because I like to use additional panel on desk > >>>> top. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I just tried other newly installed Stretch. Same problem. I guess > >>> this is Debian Stretch specific problem. > >> > >> Have you checked LXDE's site for this problem or posted a query > >> about it to their mailing list, etc? > >> > >> I've been testing Stretch 64-bit in VirtualBox, but only with > >> Openbox, LXDE's default window manager, that is, no desktop > >> environment installed, and I don't experience this problem. > >> > >> Check in your user home directory > >> for .config/lxpanel/default/panels and see what's listed. > >> > >> FYI: I'm using sysvinit as init for this test install, but have > >> not removed any systemd stuff. Could make a difference. Who > >> knows? > >> > >> B > > > > After adding an lxpanel in addition to the default one I already > > had, configured it, added applets, etc, rebooted, all worked fine. > > However, when I deleted the added panel, it along with the default > > one vanished. But when I "exited" Openbox to a terminal and ran > > startx, Openbox along with the default panel came back. However, > > since I only run Openbox and not a desktop, to have lxpanel start > > when Openbox does, I must run 'lxpanel &' it in a file 'autostart' > > in .conf/openbox/ in my home directory. Maybe, you doing the same > > thing might be a fix for your problem. > > > > B > > > > > OK, I did experiment something. > > What I did was I copied /.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels from working > Jessie machine to Stretch. > > AND the result was success! Great! > The one in Wheezy has panel and left files under "panels" but on > Stretch, there is only "panel" file. On my tests with Stretch/Openbox, I got separate config files for each panel. > > For some reason LXDE fails to create these panel files correctly and > messes up. I don't know the mechanism of this process but something is > not working right. I'd contact the LXDE people and let them know. B