HELP!!! System messed up!

[John Aldrich]

Ok... I have switched from noveau driver to the nVidia driver. That helps. 
Except I use XFCE4 as my window manager and the main bar at the top of 
every window is missing on the local console. HOWEVER, it works fine in VNC. 
I don't understand why, since both the local console and the VNC session 
use xfce4 as the window manager.
How do I figure out WHY VNC works but not local console?