[aklug] XFCE panel disappearance

I use Xubuntu 8.10 on my Dell desktop. Yesterday I had my trusty dual core
tower crunching on a video file (compressing a mpeg for work) and I needed
to retrieve the DVD from the drive but it was taking forever to unmount, so
I hit the ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the gui and than I sudo shutdown -r
now...well I did what I needed to do and I retrieved my DVD. The bad news is
on the restart the panels disappeared from my desktop. DOH!
Well I googled the problem and I found some advice on a Ubuntu Forum thread
from 2006 for another poor chap with a similar problem. It involved:

-a right click to access the program menu
-open terminal
-type 'xfce4-panel'
-do not close the terminal yet
-delete the ~/.config/xfce4 folder
-type in terminal 'sudo shutdown -r now'

Wunderbar! I have panels. The moral of the story is be nice to your computer
and let it finish perculating before initiating a forced shutdown...sheesh!
B

p.s. a second moral I guess would be to really consider the advice carefully
from strangers on the internet that tell you to delete system
folders...unless they seem ok :)

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