Disappearing toolbar in PI 1.08.03.1123 in XUbuntu 12.04 / 64bit (xfce)

[bafrog]

Dear members,
I launch this issue although from searching I saw an older issue under W7 and Linux where toolbars disappeared and reappeared for different versions of PI installed in parallel
or when running multiple instances of PI in parallel. But none of these conditions apply in my case.

In my case there is only the 1.08.03.1123 (64bit) version installed under linux (XUbuntu 12.04 / XFCE) and I only run one session.
When I closed my session yesterday night an update (no version installation but just the usual package update) was applied. When I restarted PI today for the first time after the update all toolbars were gone.
And even after exiting and restarting PI the toolbars remain gone.
I had this issue already with earlier versions and it is very, very nasty to reconfigure the toolbars at each update (especially at minor package updates).
Is there any explanation and/or resolution available for this behavior?

Thanks in advance
Martin

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Martin,

We cannot reproduce anything like this on any of our development machines (and we use exclusively Linux and FreeBSD).

Please note that we do not recommend Xfce as one of our supported graphical desktops. See our System Requirements page. The recommended X11 configuration for PixInsight 1.8 is Fedora 19 x86_64 or later with KDE 4.8 or later, or Gnome 3.2 or later. Any modern version of Ubuntu should also work without problems. I strongly recommend you update your system to the latest Ubuntu 14 version (version 12.04 is from 2012!).

Note also that Xfce is based on GNOME 2.x (which we don't support officially) and isn't being actively developed (the latest stable version of Xfce is 4.10, released April 2012).

You can reset all PixInsight settings to default values by running it with the --uninstall argument:

$ PixInsight --uninstall

You can also make a backup copy of the configuration file:

$HOME/.PixInsight/PixInsight64.conf

which you can restore to recover all your personal settings.

[Adam_Corbett]

Go to "view" click default control tool bars, I just had to turn mine back on after the latest update.