lxpanel is just blank white

[Curtis Lee Bolin]

Binary package hint: lxpanel

I don't use a display manager like lxdm. I just run startx when I want lxde. On a fresh install or running startx on a new user account, lxpanel is just blank white. I can't right click or do anything with it.

I did find a way to get it working. You must first run lxdm ONLY ONE TIME and login. After that lxpanel works fine. I can now run startx from the terminal and lxpanel is fine. I guess lxde is setting or adding some configuration that lxpanel needs to start.

Thank You For Your Time

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lxpanel 0.5.5-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 26 11:31:38 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxpanel

[Lyn Perrine (walterorlin)]

Lubuntu 10.04 is no longer supported and is eol is this reproduceable in a supported version of 14.04 LTS or 15.10 or the current development version of lubuntu. Also does lxpanelctl when running using startx allow you to configure the panel?

[Curtis Lee Bolin (curtisleebolin)]

I stopped using LXDE on Ubuntu almost 6 years ago because this bug was never addressed. The bug was confirmed almost a year later. I have since moved on to Arch Linux.