How to remove panel message on Gnome Startup SuSe 9.3?
hello from Adam I have been running SuSE 9.3 from 9.2 and usually run Gnome with Metacity. When the panels come up, I keep getting "I've have detected a panel already running, and will not exit" box with a don't enter icon. What do I do to not have this message come up every bootup to Gnome? Thanks in advance. Adam
I have been running SuSE 9.3 from 9.2 and usually run Gnome with Metacity. When the panels come up, I keep getting "I've have detected a panel already running, and will not exit" box with a don't enter icon. What do I do to not have this message come up every bootup to Gnome?
Sorry I've not replied sooner - I've been offline for a week... What you could do is drop to a text console, login, and run killall -9 gnome-panel This should kill all instances, and gnome-session should then automatically restart one. If that does work, log out, and check the save session box, then try logging back in. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
James, On Saturday 02 July 2005 00:39, James Ogley wrote:
I have been running SuSE 9.3 from 9.2 and usually run Gnome with Metacity. When the panels come up, I keep getting "I've have detected a panel already running, and will not exit" box with a don't enter icon. What do I do to not have this message come up every bootup to Gnome?
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What you could do is drop to a text console, login, and run killall -9 gnome-panel
Please, please, please don't tell people to use signal 9 / SIGKILL! Many, if not most, long-running programs must perform some kind of clean-up action when they shut down lest things like settings files go without update. The proper way to stop a program is with signal 15 / SIGTERM or signal 1 / SIGHUP (simulating the loss of carrier on a dial-in log-in). Only if neither of these signals results in the process's termination should signal 9 / SIGKILL be used. Lastly, it is advisable to use symbolic signal names rather than numbers, lest you inadvertently hit the wrong key or remember the signal number incorrectly. All the primary kill programs, including the shell built-ins, known the symbolic names both with and without the common prefix "SIG."
... -- James Ogley
Randall Schulz
James Ogley wrote:
I have been running SuSE 9.3 from 9.2 and usually run Gnome with Metacity. When the panels come up, I keep getting "I've have detected a panel already running, and will not exit" box with a don't enter icon. What do I do to not have this message come up every bootup to Gnome?
Sorry I've not replied sooner - I've been offline for a week...
What you could do is drop to a text console, login, and run killall -9 gnome-panel
This should kill all instances, and gnome-session should then automatically restart one.
If that does work, log out, and check the save session box, then try logging back in.
Nope, it doesn't. Still pestering me when restarting in Gnome. I really don't like KDE since my screens are set as OSX style. I wish there are more man pages and descriptions of all the little files created by these window managers. It is a persisant thing, so I am guessing a variable in a config file Iwill have to change. Adam
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