Comment 19 for bug 687660

I created a new user on this system and logged in - now the panel/launcher was visible and everything works, so there's probably still some configuration file in $HOME that I missed.

One of the problems is of course that many files get loaded at login and get "restored" to the filesystem at logout, even when nothing changed. I could rant about that horrible design flaw for hours, but instead I am resigning to simply remove files without logging into the desktop, and then logging out and back in to see if something changed. Without luck so far.

I also made a screenie of the problem as it is now.