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parkbench

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Registered: 2010-12-22

Posts: 4

lxpanel funky behavior

Hey y'all--new #! user here, and loving it! Wanted to ask for some advice about an lxpanel config I've got going that is almost where I want it to be, but not quite. Let me start with a picture:

There's my desktop, with conky running on the side and lxpanel up there in the corner set to a very small width & in transparent mode. (And the picture, in case you're wondering, is the wonderful Marie-Pierre (http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/03/mari … chool.html), a trans icon/idol for myself and someone I've looked to in a mythical kind of sense in terms of the history of gender bending in the West!)

Here's the issue I'm running up against: I've set the key combo ctrl-alt-d to be my "show desktop" hotkey. I'm not sure at what point this started happening--probably when I was screwing with configs all over the place--but now when I'm using Iceweasel, for example, and I ctrl-alt-d to show the desktop, lxpanel is gone. I've discovered that I have to do it a few times until I get a desktop with nothing on it, but when I hit alt-tab I can see a "window" that wasn't there before that represents lxpanel. I then have to alt-tab to it to get it to show. It works, of course, but then if I start using some other program again and show desktop, then...well, you get the picture.

It's pretty annoying because the whole point of having a sys tray in the first place is that it is constant, and I'm not enjoying the fact that I have to manually make it show up every time I want to check my battery power or fux with vidalia, or whatever. Does anybody have any idea what's going on, and how I can make sure the lxpanel maintains a constant state on the bottom layer?

THX!
~pbench