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It doesn't happen often (but I'd love to know why), but I lost by Xfce panel again today. Luckily this is easy to fix. Open a terminal (right mouse click) and re-start the panel with: xfce4-panel & Now that you have you're panel working make this permanent by removing current session information: rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/ Logout and restart your session. One final hint, backup your Xfce4 settings! I alias the backup command and keep a local and remote copy of the generated archive: alias backupxfce='cd ~;tar jcvf Backups/xfce4.tar.bz2 .config/xfce4' This alias will create a  bzip2  archive.

The following guide is to assist installation of XBMC  onto an ACER Aspire Revo R3700 320G/ 2G RAM Mini PC  running Ubuntu 10.04. See also my notes on installing MCE remote for XBMC . Please feel free to suggest corrections or clarifications. Installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I installed Ubuntu 10.04 from USB. Instructions for this can be found at Ubuntu here . References https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=53812 http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux Enable SSH Enable ssh for easy remote management. enable X11 forwarding, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config set, X11Forwarding yes enable SSH daemon with, update-rc.d ssh defaults restart SSH daemon with, service ssh restart on the server allow an X client with, xhost +[ip_of_client] To start a session with X enabled, ssh -X user@192.168.0.6 To copy a file from local to remote host use, scp local_file user user@192.168.0.6:/ho...