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portsample

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 6

Desktop just went gray...

Desktop background went totally gray after booting. Tried reinstalling xfdesktop4 with no luck. Any suggestions? OS is opensuse 15.1. Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,489

Re: Desktop just went gray...

Could possibly be many things.

Is xfdesktop running?

ps -ef | grep xfdesktop

...if not, start it by running xfdesktop.

If opensuse uses ~/.xsession-errors, there may be some info in that file as to what is happening.

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portsample

Member

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 6

Re: Desktop just went gray...

Appears so,

user@somewhere:~> ps -ef | grep xfdesktop
user    5188  5165  0 08:52 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto xfdesktop

.xsession-errors is a blank file. Thanks.

portsample

Member

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 6

Re: Desktop just went gray...

Okay, got it. Reboot and terminal restart of xfdesktop resolved this.