Comment 9 for bug 47602

Positive I did not "simply remove menubar applet". Both the top and bottom panels are empty, void, devoid of all life and 100% non-responsive -- just a gray pair of gray bars, until I right-click desktop to open a gnome-terminal (via nautilus-open-terminal) and exec "killall gnome-panel". It seems that gnome-panel initializes correctly on all but the first time within my gnome session. Of course, the first time is the most important as the 2nd ... nth times should never be needed. Make sense?