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    How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    I switched to XFCE a while back as I'm not getting on with Gnome3.

    However, today gnome-panel insists on appearing in my XFCE session thereby covering up the XFCE panels Plus, it loads some programs and terminals by default.

    I've tried deleting as many things I can find in ~/.config which seem to be related to sessions, but gnome-panel and the default programs still keep appearing!

    Please can someone tell me two things:

    1. how to kill gnome-panel in my XFCE session? I don't want to kill it completely as other users use Gnome.
    2. where on earth are the default session settings stored for the programs that are appearing?

    Please help. This is driving me mad!
    TIA

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    Re: How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    I just saw that if you remove gnome-shell gnome-panel is not removed. I don't understand why (or how) it runs though!

    Code:
    yum remove gnome-panel
    See if this helps to solve your problem.

    ---------- Post added at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:23 PM ----------

    Oops! I did not read the post carefully. Removing gnome-panel would not work if you want gnome for other users! Apologies!

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    Re: How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    You could use a script which on login kills the gnome-panel in your profile.

    To place in ~/.config/autostart/
    script-on-login.desktop
    PHP Code:
    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Name
    =StartScript
    Comment
    =Execute Script on login
    Icon
    =gnome-info
    Exec
    =$HOME/bin/login.sh
    Terminal
    =true
    Type
    =Application
    Categories
    =System
    Hidden
    =false 
    And for example in $HOME/bin/login.sh
    PHP Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    #tar -acf /nas/backups/$(hostname)/$USER/hiddenfiles-$(date +'%y.%m.%d-%H:%M').tar.gz  $HOME/"."*
    sudo pkill gnome-panel 
    Last edited by sea; 25th May 2012 at 12:26 AM.
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    Re: How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    You could try deleting the sessions cache in ~/.cache/sessions/

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    Re: How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    Verify that nauilus isn't running too. I've had some weird cases w/ nautilus messing up a xfce session. Unclear how it's started since I've unchecked it in Administration->Session&Startup.

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    Re: How to get rid of gnome-panel from XFCE session?

    Quote Originally Posted by ozjd
    You could try deleting the sessions cache in ~/.cache/sessions/
    Perfect!

    I just deleted everything in ~/.cache just to be sure and it fixed it. Many thanks.

    BTW thanks for the other replies, but nautilus wasn't running and killing gnome-panel doesn't work as it just respawns.

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