Broken Desktop

XX · 2016-03-19 16:01:38

Hello,

I seem to have bunched-up my Desktop.
It will not display icons and the wall paper disappears when I reboot.
If I go to File Manager->Desktop the icons are there, they just don't show up on my Desktop.
I've gone to Settings and played around to no avail.

Is there some way to repair this I'm missing?

Thanks, X

ToZ · 2016-03-19 16:41:06

Hello and welcome.

Sounds like xfdesktop has either crashed and/or stopped working, or something else has taken over control of the desktop.
Try running:

xfdesktop

...in a terminal window and see what happens.

You can also try clearing your sessions cache.

XX · 2016-03-19 21:34:10

Here's the results:

allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ xfdesktop
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

How do you "clear sessions cache"?

Thanks

ToZ · 2016-03-19 21:37:32

XX wrote:

Here's the results:
allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ xfdesktop
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

Did the desktop work after you did this? Did you see icons on the desktop and the correct wallpaper?

How do you "clear sessions cache"?

Best if you do it the manual way. While not logged in, delete ~/.cache/sessions. If you use a display manager like lightdm, then log out and Ctrl+Alt+F1, log into the text session and:

cd ~/.cache
rm -rf sessions

XX · 2016-03-19 21:38:19

Oh, I see what you're getting at!

Ran that text in the term and shazzam, my Desktop is back.

Thanks again, peace out! X

XX · 2016-03-26 02:50:06

I'm reopening this question.
I rebooted the PC and no desktop again.
How do I save the restored desktop settings?

Thanks, X

ToZ · 2016-03-26 03:05:25

First, manually clear your sessions cache. While not logged in, delete ~/.cache/sessions. If you use a display manager like lightdm, then log out and Ctrl+Alt+F1, log into the text session and:

cd ~/.cache
rm -rf sessions

Then, whenever you log out, make sure that the "Save session for future logins" checkbox is unchecked. Also make sure that Settings Manager > Session and Startup > General Tab > "Automatically save session on logout" is unchecked.

If this continues to happen, you'll need to figure out what is either crashing or replacing xfdesktop. For the crashing part, you should have a log file you can review (depends on distro, but try ~/.xsession-errors.old). For the replacing part, before you log out, go to Settings Manager > Session and startup > Session tab, and see if xfdesktop is running. If not, look for another program that may have taken over the management of your desktop (nautilus, pcmanfm, nemo, ....).

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