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n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

the other day when I booted up, the rask bar ws missing. I tried rebooting numerous times but it's still missing. I do see a 1 pixel wide bar in the lower left corner but nothing I can right-click, left-click or drag. It's not just invisible, clicking known positions (menu, desktops, etc) does nothing.

`f00 · Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 13:42 Post subject: Subject description: 1 pixel wide

Hmm, usually a single pixel wide is a 'hidden' bar .. just move the pointer to that edge and it should unhide/pop-out. Depending on if it's a jwm tray or some other panel (like pfbpanel, etc) you can set it to be non-hidden (always visible).

Hope that helps a bit, more info on just which window manager and tray/panel(aka 'taskbar') might help to narrow down a solution..

n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

It doesn't act hidden (pop out when hovered over or clicked). In the Openbox confic (accessible via right cick on the desktop) I can find nothing about the taskbar's config.

`f00 · Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 22:54 Post subject: Subject description: true

That helps - openbox itself has no native panel/taskbar so I'd imagine this is one of those pups (Lucid?) with pfbpanel to provide it. In that case the config for pfbpanel is probably in /root/.config/fbpanel/default or symlinked somewhere thereabouts - there may even be a menu item under desktop or setup section to access the config ui. Some users report that pfbpanel's a bit flakey to set up as you might want (lots of options so some fiddling about might be unavoidable since you need to do it in a certain way to get it to work as expected Rolling Eyes

).

If nothing else, you can get the original config from /initrd/pup_ro2/*/.. dir (that's the read-only for your basic OEM pup with nothing altered)

likely path(s) for the pfbpanel config file
/.config/fbpanel/default
/root/.config/fbpanel/default

n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

Thanks. I found the width and height were set to 0% and 0px. I tried manually editing them (the -old and -bak files as well) but after a momentary flash of visibility on X restart it vanished again. Finding Fbpanel Configuration in the menu and setting the parameters there, I finally got it back, ans now re-edited the default-old again to eliminate those unwanted 0s.

n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

I found that each time I reboot the taskbar will flash momentarily but then disappear again. The config brings it back. Might there be some archived file somewhere that's getting reloaded instead of the default I'm setting in the config?

n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

(I think) every time I start the Fbanel config and look at the plugins tab, the Show CPU monitor is disabled but if I don't look at plugins, sometimes it's enabled when I close the config. What.s going on with that? Why won't it remember to show the full taskbar (looks hidden but won't pop out on mouseover) when I boot again?

n0ukf · Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 89

Come on, nobody has thoughts on this?