Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations

[Steve Dibb]

Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation
> with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after
> one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps
> are missing the window decorations. They keep missing, even if
> I restart the panel manually. So I have to restart X which is a
> PITA. Have you seen this? Do you have a recommendation?
>

Upgrading GTK and or its libs sometimes introduce small quirks into XFCE, I've 
noticed.  Generally, I just re-emerge all the XFCE packages and I'm good to go.

Something like this should work:

# emerge gentoolkit
# equery l > /tmp/equery
# for x in `grep xfce /tmp/equery`; do emerge =$x; done;

Steve
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