Gnome lower panel issue

[Derrick Ryalls]

On 1/31/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:35 -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > New subscriber but I did a search for this issue and came up blank.  I
> > recently posted this on questions:
> >
> > I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most
> > everything seems to work except the lower panel does not display the
> current
> > running programs or the other virtual desktops.  I can alt-tab to the
> other
> > programs in the same virtual terminal, and can use cntrl-alt
> (left/right) to
> > get to the other terminals, but none show the normal bar at the
> bottom.  The
> > top bar looks normal (has normal menus, clock, etc).  I hope this is
> just
> > dependancy that needs to be rebuilt, but am unsure of which one do try.
> >
> > My install was something like this:
> >
> > Install Freebsd 6 using 6.0 release disc burned last month.
> > Install basic packages via sysinstall
> > At this point I tried portupgrade -NPPR x11/gnome2
> > After many weird issue on out of date dependancies, I used the
> > gnome2.12update script to fix the issues.
> > After update script was finished, I executed a normal install: cd
> > x11/gnome2; make install clean
> >
> > The final install did complete successfully and gnome has been running,
> but
> > the bottom panel isn't working.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue about what I need to redo to get the lower panel
> > working?  I have considered scrapping 2.12 and going to 2.10 instead
> (from
> > install CD), but that seems a bit extreme, I am hoping there is a quick
> fix
> > for this.
>
> Just create a new panel with Bottom orientation at 24 pixels.  then add
> the applets you want.
>
> Joe
>
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Honestly, I did not know about all the goodies you can have on a panel.
Thanks, fixed the issue.