Hi. I am facing this problem for the second time. Each time it happened on different computers and only in one account on each computer.
Suddenly, when a user logs in, the CPanel is not shown, and the menu is missing (I guess the menu is part of the panel, right?).
All that is present is the “Openbox” menu by right clicking on the desktop. From that menu, opening applications is possible, but the logout item does nothing.
Any ideas on how this issue happens and how to fix it will be appreciated.
Not something I had even touched, do you see a problem here?
By the way, the first time I had this problem, I ended up erasing the user, adding it again (so the home directory would be clean), and this corrected the issue.
But this time this is not helping. Maybe the base profile was corrupted/changed?
What version of openSUSE is it? Though that shouldn’t matter. It’s just better if we are all ‘singing from the same song sheet’.
I have never had such behaviour with any of my installs and can’t say I recall any mention of such in the forum. Even what I consider to be a ‘trash’ install for testing, where I install everything and anything and mess about with settings I might not otherwise do, I always find things work as they should.
So your experience is strange indeed.
Is /home a partition that has been brought along from previous installs (or included other distros) without being formatted?
How many desktop patterns do you have installed?
I don’t have an lxde installed now on my machine, but as I recall
when you are login to lxde and it is using openbox there is a
switch where you can change that setting.Try locating it by
mouse right click on your screen or it can be in one of the lxde/openbox
settings. It accidentally happened to me once
and it gave me a bit of a time finding that switch.
Try open a terminal and type the command lxpanel and see if panel is running or not.
For changing the openbox menu with desktop mouse right click to lxde
Use the terminal or run command and type** pcmanfm --desktop-pref** and go to advance and un-check the checkbox.
Hope this will work.
For the record, this is 11.4 running on a Atom box.
Your words are rather comforting since I have been dreaming of having an stable & heterogeneous network based mostly open systems (as much as this is possible from a practical perspective).
So I started deploying this boxes with openSUSE 11.4 a few months ago, and still am wondering whether using LXDE is actually a good choice (from the stability). I chose LXDE for its lightness (Atom processor) and thinking that its simplicity would be good.
Answering your questions, the whole system was installed from scratch (no previous installs).
Don’t know what a “desktop pattern” is, could you please clarify or guide me on where to check this?
Did you observe the words of @conram, he seems to have a handle on your issue.
FYI: I run a netbook with Atom CPU, 11.4 Gnome, it’s as snappy as LXDE was when I tried that but much nicer with it. And Gnome in 11.4 is just rock solid.
caf4926 wrote:
> FYI: I run a netbook with Atom CPU, 11.4 Gnome, it’s as snappy as LXDE
> was when I tried that but much nicer with it. And Gnome in 11.4 is just
> rock solid.
Well, since you started offering value judgments instead of technical
assistance, I have to say that I strongly prefer LXDE to Gnome, so in my
opinion your assertion that Gnome is nicer than LXDE is wrong.
But leaving aside personal opinions, I do think it is wrong to attempt
to persuade the OP that his choice of environment is poor - unless it
appears to be an important factor in curing his problem, which it does
not in this case. The OP simply needs to change a preference setting, in
all likelihood.
On 01/25/2012 04:56 AM, caf4926 wrote:
> FYI: I run a netbook with Atom CPU, 11.4 Gnome, it’s as snappy as LXDE
> was when I tried that but much nicer with it. And Gnome in 11.4 is just
> rock solid.
and, i run an Atom with KDE4 (11.4), rock solid stable…mostly snappy,
but not as snappy as the AMD 3000+ which guzzled electricity at three
times the rate…
this (in the euro country with the highest electricity rates) is
snappy enough!
but, not trying to talk anyone out of running LXDE, Gnome or anything open…
If it was installed from scratch all things LXDE needed to run should have been installed unless you modify it.
In this case you may not need the pattern which was discussed in earlier post. But maybe better to have a second look.
The pattern, you will see it in yast2 if you open the software management.
Came back to correct my mistake. I am referring to a different pattern which caf4926 mentioned in his post. These are two different things.
Anyway the pattern in yast2 -software management is also a place to verify if you are having a problem or missing package to run your DE smoothly.
Hi Carlos. After all these years I still get confused with so many terms describing different/similar/same concepts, you know “desktop patterns”, “graphical desktop environments”, “windows managers”, etc.
So I hope I can offer you an appropriate answer. The options presented on the “Desktop” section of the login screen (which I hope are the desktop patterns installed) are: LXDE, Openbox, TWM, IceWM. These are the ones installed by default by the LXDE Live CD 11.4.
> Hi Carlos. After all these years I still get confused with so many
> terms describing different/similar/same concepts, you know “desktop
> patterns”, “graphical desktop environments”, “windows managers”, etc.
Right… but I think I got confused myself. The pattern may refer to what
you can install in Yast: you can choose patterns there. If you see one for
KDE and click on it, you should get everything needed to run KDE. Same for
LXDE, etc.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
LXDE is above Gnome and KDE here, but not installed in my system
Even if yours shows a check, try right click install and see if it drags in anything extra
I’m sorry if this is raising an old thread from the dead, but I got this recently too.
I did an overwrite installation of openSUSE 12.3 with LXDE (wrote over a previous openSUSE 12.3 Xfce installation) and after a while (possibly after running the initial set of updates? I am not sure) it opens to Openbox even if I make sure I specify LXDE.
When I say “overwrite installation”, I have the /home directory in its own partition and root in another. I let openSUSE put the entire (new) OS in the one existing root partition and overwrite the version already in there, while the /home partition remains untouched. I used the desktop package selection step to specify LXDE.
I’ll be trying out the suggestions listed here once I get a chance.
I am hoping that since my laptop is the pre-Atom era (Pentium M @ 1.8+/- Ghz) that LXDE will be light enough to give it some new life (at least until I open a program ;)! When I first jumpted to Xfce I saw a gain over the heavier Unity and KDE tries (and the Windows 7 installation too). I’m hoping to see a gain with LXDE over Xfce without it being too much trouble to make it look and work the way I want it to.
Quick update:
I ended up getting LXDE to work again, and it seems to be some conflict or something in the profile. I don’t know where LXDE stores its configuration so I solved the issue by:
logged in as root (tty2, not in the GUI)
change the name of my /home directory
mv /home/dragonbite /home/dragonbite_bak
make a new /home directory
mkdir /home/dragonbite
ensure ownership, without the -R flag since it is only one folder
chown dragonbite:users /home/myusername
log in as dragonbite
since the permissions should still be set to dragonbite I could still access the folder fine. So I go into dragonbite_bak and copy the files I want into my new /home directory.
I know it is a bit like using a sledgehammer to hit a nail, and if I took the time to figure out where LXDE stores its profile information I could have renamed/removed just that and have the same effect but this worked and got me back quickly.