a fix for remix?

[Ralph Pichie]

I've had some problems with Jaunty on my Aspire One, to the extent
that I had to install more than once. Twice, the launchers and panels
disappeared. I was left with nothing on the desktop, without even
Alt+F2 or a terminal as an option. The most recent issue seemed to
occur after I started to use Tomboy notes, but I'm not sure if that is
the cause or not. I tried every option from the login screen and
booted in recovery mode, but nothing worked. I did get the standard
launcher to open at one point, but only by using the CLI option and
the netbook-launcher command, or something like that.

Compiz isn't worth the effort, not on this hardware, judging by my
experience. I got the cube to work for a moment, but soon the system
was locked and the goodness of eye candy was replaced by the bad and
the ugly shortly thereafter.

The latest installation has a separate partition for my /home, just in
case things work for a while and I have to install again after I
accumulate files and such.

Any ideas on this matter?