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bjlockie

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Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

How do I remove the menu from the desktop?
The one with:
favorites
files & folders
accessories
graphics
internet
office
other
sound & video
system tools
system

I am on a netbook and it seems to slow everything down (sometimes it didn't run and everything was faster).
It seems to always run now. :-(

XUbuntu-9.10

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

The menu shouldn't affect performance. If however, xfdesktop had crashed, that could potentially improve your desktop's responsiveness. Xfdesktop sets the wallpaper, draws your desktop icons and pulls the xfce menu, upon right-clicking the desktop.

Have a look in the Settings>Startup and Session dialog. If you set xfdesktop's, "restart style", to never in the session tab, kill xfdesktop and save your session, xfdesktop will no longer start. See if this improves performance.

bjlockie

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Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

I lost my workspaces and rmb. :-(
I used to have the rmb, no xfcemenu, no workspaces.
Now I have the xfcemenu, no rmb, no workspaces.
It might be different when I reboot.
I messed up something. :-(

bjlockie

Member

Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

The menu shouldn't affect performance. If however, xfdesktop had crashed, that could potentially improve your desktop's responsiveness. Xfdesktop sets the wallpaper, draws your desktop icons and pulls the xfce menu, upon right-clicking the desktop.

Have a look in the Settings>Startup and Session dialog. If you set xfdesktop's, "restart style", to never in the session tab, kill xfdesktop and save your session, xfdesktop will no longer start. See if this improves performance.

Performance is improved by a lot.
It wasn't the graphics because it was fast at redrawing once it started.
There was a 2-5 second pause before anything happened when hovering over different icons.

bjlockie

Member

Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

The menu shouldn't affect performance. If however, xfdesktop had crashed, that could potentially improve your desktop's responsiveness. Xfdesktop sets the wallpaper, draws your desktop icons and pulls the xfce menu, upon right-clicking the desktop.

Have a look in the Settings>Startup and Session dialog. If you set xfdesktop's, "restart style", to never in the session tab, kill xfdesktop and save your session, xfdesktop will no longer start. See if this improves performance.

I added xfce4-panel because I must have killed it by mistake and the menu is back. :-(
I though xfce4-panel would add the task list and rmb menu.
xfdesktop is not running.

etnlWings

Member

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

If right/middle-clicking your desktop pulls the xfce menus, then xfdesktop has to be running. There's no way around that. Xfce4-panel can only access the menus from the menu plugins on the panel.

On my system I just tested this. I opened the Sessions and Startup dialogue, set xfdesktop's restart style to, "never", then did a:

pkill xfdesktop

My memory usage dropped by about 8mb, my wallpaper disappeared, the desktop menus no longer functioned and xfce4-panel remained unaffected.

bjlockie

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Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

I put a picture up.
http://lockie.ca/test/screen.jpg
The orange menu on the desktop is the slow part that I want to get rid of.

ps ax
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etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

Oh, you didn't say you were using a Netbook remix of [X]ubuntu.

Either pkill netbook-launcher, or uninstall it. This is not a component of Xfce or Xfdesktop. You can safely re-enable xfdesktop.

bjlockie

Member

Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

Oh, you didn't say you were using a Netbook remix of [X]ubuntu.

Either pkill netbook-launcher, or uninstall it. This is not a component of Xfce or Xfdesktop. You can safely re-enable xfdesktop.

How do I readd xfdesktop to Session and Startup since I deleted it?

That orange thing was netbook-launcher?

etnlWings

Member

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

Open a run dialog (Alt + F2), type xfdesktop, then open the Session and Startup dialogue and on the Session tab, restore xfdesktop's restart style.

bjlockie

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Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 9

Re: removing menu from desktop [SOLVED]

Thanks.