MaltedVomit: It would be useful to me if you started LXDE from the terminal, instead of the icon. At the terminal, enter: Code: debbie xephwm5 I'm hoping that when the panel goes into the continuous open/close loop, that there will be some messages sent to the terminal that we can use to determine what's going on. It looks like I get "Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/..." a few times, then "unrecognised device identifier!" twice, and then things are quiet. Could you see if you get any more messages than that? Also, I find closing the chroot really can fix a lot of problems. Use the "Close Debian" icon before starting again.
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