LXPanel random missing apps/icons

[peabee]

Also posted to the LXDE Forum....

I have 2 panels - the top one just has an "Application Launch Bar" with 12 apps in it.....

Most times the panel starts up with some apps/icons missing - seemingly randomly but the bigger apps (e.g. Chromium & Thunderbird) are the most likely to be missing.

I have to do repeated calls to:
lxpanelctl restart
and eventually all apps/icons appear.

Questions:

1. Anybody know what causes this behaviour?
2. What checks is LXPanel running to decide that an icon cannot be displayed?
3. Is there a record of which icons opened successfully and which could not be opened?
4. Is there a test I can do to ensure that all apps are ready to be displayed?

Many thanks

[JustinS-B]

I also have this exact problem, with identical symptoms.

I have two panels. My second one just has an Application Launch Bar with three applications in it.

I run LXDE on Arch Linux, booted from an SSD on an Intel i7 based system with 32Gb of RAM. The installation of Arch & LXDE is only a few days old, & everything is fully updated.

Every time that I boot up my system, I only get one or two of my app icons appearing. Just as @peabee noted above, repeatedly running lxpanelctl restart from a terminal will give me one, two or three icons, in a different order, until at last I get my three icons back. This usually takes between three and five reloads to accomplish.

[edwardp3]

Is this the same issue?

[peabee]

No - that looks like a different issue......