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MoLE

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Registered: 2010-05-04

Posts: 8

[Solved] Change to XFCE taskbar / notification area after update

I have just updated and rebooted my statler testing VM, and it appears I have lost the notification area at the bottom, but I now have a pop-out panel on the left side of the screen.

Network manager icon as well as the gnote icon have been lost :-(

I assume this is intentional, but any suggestions on how to get the network manager icon back would be helpful.  I would like to test the 'fix' to allow network-manager to control my wired network, in my post above.

Last edited by MoLE (2010-05-06 02:41:05)

omns

#! wanderer

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: [Solved] Change to XFCE taskbar / notification area after update

You seem to have corrupted your autostart.sh in ~/.config/xfce4/autostart.sh which is making the xfce4 panel appear instead in tint2

The default content of your autostart.sh should look like this

#!/bin/bash
# ----------------------------------------------------
# Description: a shell script to set-up additional
#              features within your Xfce session,
#              fashioned after Openbox's autostart.sh
# ----------------------------------------------------
# Most importantly, we only want to run this when
# using Xfce and not Openbox, so lets check if
# Xfce's window manager is running, if not, exit.
if [ ! "$(pidof xfwm4)" ]; then
    exit 0
fi
# Replace the default Xfce panel with tint2
# FIXME: there is probably a better way of doing this!?
if [ "$(pidof xfce4-panel)" ]; then
    killall xfce4-panel &
    tint2 &
else
    tint2 &
fi
# Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
# FIXME: there is probably a better way of doing this!?
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
    synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 &
    synclient TapButton1=1 &
fi
# FIXME: xscreensaver, for some reason it is not autostarting?
xscreensaver -no-splash &
# Start Xfce notes after a slight delay
(sleep 3s && xfce4-notes) &
# Start Conky after a slight delay
(sleep 3s && conky -q) &
# Start volwheel after a slight delay
(sleep 3s && volwheel) &
exit 0

Check if yours looks like this, make any changes necessary then log out and back in again

MoLE

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Registered: 2010-05-04

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Change to XFCE taskbar / notification area after update

Looks golden now.  Reboot the VM and now I have tint2 back!

Network manager fix has also worked.