Under a specific user (not all users on system) after a system restart or re-login of that user applets refuse to show on the panel(s) they are configured to show on. The only way I can get the applets to appear is to manually restart the applet, then re-add it to the panel(s). For example, the clock-applet: pkill clock-applet; /usr/libexec/clock-applet & ;# re-add to the panel via the GUI I've tried to default my gnome config in the following ways which does default them but still shows the issue: pkill gconfd-2; rm -rf ~/.gconf ;# relogin gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel ;# relogin Version info: - gnome-panel-2.18.3-1.fc7 - gtk2-2.10.14-3.fc7 - glib-1.2.10-26.fc7 Note that when I do kill an applet that is failing to show on a panel I do get the 'applet quit unexpectedly' dialog from which I click 'do not reload'. This shows that the applets are not crashing they simply do not show. Because this is user-specific, I'm convinced its an issue with some config file(s) in my user directory however I've been unable to pinoint which file(s). Perhaps the issue is that the effective contents of some files are cached and simply rm -rf'ing them does not do the trick (I learned this was the case with the contents of the .gconf directory)
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