Comment 3 for bug 366109

Great idea! Your desktop-switcher launcher idea worked, however, only temporarily. Once I've booted into the panel-less desktop and used the desktop switcher to switch to the netbook remix interface, it was fine at first. If I switch back into classic desktop then it loads part of the top bar, but not the whole lot (it seems to only be the part of the taskbar that's present in the netbook remix interface, except that it has changed to the correct colour!) However, when I then switch back into the netbook remix interface, it looks fine but I get an error: "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for netbook-launcher. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly." and clicking the details button gives me "Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to gconf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))". Now if I switch back to classic desktop the taskbars disappear again and my home folder randomly opens. Next, when I switch back to the netbook remix interface then there is no taskbar at the top (but I still have the netbook-remixy bit covering the rest of the screen).

However, if I restart the computer from the classic interface then the same problem happens. However, if I switch to the netbook remix interface (with the taskbars working) and reboot from there then when it starts up again I get the netbook remix interface without the top taskbar. But if I then switch to the classic interface, I get the desktop but with the top taskbar from the netbook remix interface! (but the correct grey colour). However, rebooting now gives me the taskbar-less desktop.

This seems to be really wierd and buggy behaivour!

Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil