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

[wireman]

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

[nonamedotc]

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

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!

[sea]

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 


[ozjd]

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

[stevea]

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.

[wireman]

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.