top panel

[Tom London]

On 7/17/06, Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:08 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> > Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > is anybody else having problems with gnome-panel, my top panel (one with
> > > the menu's and clock) freezes. I can still see the text, but it doesn't
> > > react to any mouse clicks and my clock and notification area isn't
> > > visible.
> > I see similar freezing on FC5, seems to happen when both firefox and
> > thunderbird running, but very rarely so that I can't put my finger on it.
> > Does the workspace switcher keyboard combo (ctrl-alt-left_arrow etc.)
> > work ?
>
> My workspace switcher is in my bottom panel, and that works fine. And a
> character-palette applet in the top-panel is also still working. But the
> network monitor, cpu monitor, clock, menus and application start icons
> are all frozen or not there.
>
> - Erwin
>
I saw this when 'metacity' somehow was not starting in the session. Is
it running?

If not, run metacity from a terminal window and see if that improves things.

tom
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Tom London