[Tfug] OK, XFCE on an older rig has lost it's mind...

[Jim March]

I'm rebuilding an old IBM Thinkpad "iSeries" Celeron 600 critter.  All
of 192megs RAM and that appears to be peak (sigh). Trident video with
wow, 4megs RAM!  (bleah)

I have Gutsy loaded with both Gnome and XFCE desktops.  Between the
two, Gnome is (surprisingly) working pretty good while XFCE feels
unstable as hell.

I have it working on Ethernet, no WiFi yet.

Gnome is slower...still (barely) usable mind you.  So I should stick
with XFCE, right?

Problem there is, my panels vanished.  I had a complete set of panels
configured properly, I did a good shutdown, came back, they're
frackin' gone.  And while I can right-click and get menus, the "panel
manager" application in XFCE refuses to start, leaving XFCE totally
useless, at least for newbie use which this machine will go to soon if
I get it tuned right.

So:

* Any idea what's wrong with XFCE?  Is there a file or folder I can
nuke in order to reset it to default panel layouts?

Jim