LXDE lxpanel taskbar configs incorrect if first run with no monitor attached

[Blake Girardot]

This was all tested using:
2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img
Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l

It seems that when you first use the LXDE GUI you need to have a monitor attached or the config files for the lxpanel taskbar get broken.

If I do a clean write to an SD card and connect up a monitor via HDMI and boot and then startx everything works fine, I get a lxpanel taskbar at the bottom of the screen.

However, if I write a clean image to an SD card, connect an Ethernet cable only and then log in via ssh using MobaXterm and issue the lxsession command I receive this error:

** (lxpanel:2356): WARNING **: Config files are not found.

and I get no lxpanel task bar at the bottom of my screen.

the directories:
~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/

are created as normal, but the LXDE directory is not populated with the config files, which it would be normally with a monitor connected on first run of the LXDE gui.

Subsequently connecting a monitor via HDMI and typing startx I still do not get the taskbar at the bottom of my screen and do not get the config files copied to the config directory.

I can remove the ~/.config/lxpanel directory, and it will be recreated, but it will only be populated with the actual config files if I remove it and then connect a monitor to the HDMI port and then type startx.

Please let me know if I can provide any further information.

I can manually fix the problem of no taskbar by doing this:
cp -rp /etc/xdg/lxpanel/profile/LXDE/* ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/

and it is my understanding that LXDE should read the default config files when it does not find the config files in the local user's home directory.

[John Watkins (jcw)]

I encountered this warning in the following image: 2013-07-26-wheezy-raspbian.img.

uname -a -> Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #474 PREEMPT Thu Jun 13 17:14:42 BST 2013 armv6l GNU/Linux

I noticed the missing lxpanel taskbar when I created a new user after ssh'ng into the raspberry pi as the user pi. I created the new user, then set the same groups as the user pi including sudoers. I confirmend the new user login locally on the raspberry pi. I then killed the ssh sessions. I ssh'ed in as the new user. That is when I experienced the same lxpanel: 2356 warning as reported in the original report

Just as reported above the new user did not have the files below ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/. I cp'ed the files from /etc/xdg/lxpanel/profile/LXDE/. This seems to have corrected the problem.

The raspberry pi was set up with a monitor attached via the HDMI port the first itme the user pi logged into it. The pi users appears to have had all the configuratin files when I later logged into the raspberry pi using ssh. I infer this becuase I had no problems with the session when I looged in as I did with the new user I created later.

It may have been presumptious of me to expect the files to be copied. But ssh was enabled and the directory structure for the files was created. So I believe that the directories should have been completley populated.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Is this issue still present in a recent image?
If so, you should report it here: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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