On 10/15/2017 11:55 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/15/17, A_Man_Without_Clue <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/15/2017 06:57 PM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>> On 10/15/2017 08:32 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>>> >>>> I have been running Debian Stretch with LXDE for about 1 week. >>>> >>>> I turned on the PC this morning and and found out that the main LXDE >>>> panel at bottom (default panel) is gone. >>>> >>>> I had added additional panel at the side with few icons and also had >>>> changed the back ground image. I didn't do anything fancy other than >>>> that. >>>> >>>> The newly added panel was displayed but was missing some icons, only >>>> showing default desktop PC looking icons. I rebooted to PC to see if it >>>> would make differences. All icons on the newly added panel came back but >>>> the bottom menu panel is still missing. >>>> >>>> What went wrong and why? >>>> How can I get the bottom panel? >>> >>> >>> I gave up. >>> >>> What I did was I deleted my account and added myself again. >>> >>> But it's good to know how to restore the default settings if there is >>> the way. >> >> >> I don't believe this.... >> >> Same thing happened again to newly created account.... >> I don't know what caused this. I did same thing. Added new side panel, >> and changed background image.... >> >> Clueless now. > > > The only thing I can think of is... did you try running your cursor > (mouse pointer) all the way off the screen in the area where that > panel usually sits? That would rule out that it's somehow being > toggled into that hide-n-seek feature that those have.. > > A quick search looking for possible keyboard shortcuts (to hide and > show our panels) reminded me that you could try ALT+F1 to see if that > brings up your Applications menu or at least something similar. > Disclaimer is that might not be an LXDE shortcut, but it *is* one for > XFCE4. I like to think something nice and helpful like that is > *universal*. :) > > If ALT+F1 works, it would tell you if your panel is still there or > not, anyway. If that doesn't work, maybe another Internet search will > reveal a keyboard key combination special to LXDE that you could try.. > > You could also try "ps aux | grep panel" and/or "ps aux | grep > lxpanel", too. That might help show if the panel is even active. As an > example for mine just now, "grep panel" brought up "xfce4-panel". If > anyone knows a different grep [variable/value] would instead be > reflected for LXDE's panel(s) in that output, please help share.. > > I had an experience like this a long time ago, but can't remember > what. I do remember fighting it for a very frustrated extended period > of time, though. If that experience comes back to mind, I'll come back > and add to this... > > Cindy :) >
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.
