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k-3.14

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From: Rhineland

Registered: 2017-02-18

Posts: 156

Desktop settings issue [SOLVED]

I have a very stable DEBIAN Buster here, but today I am experiencing a strange behavior.

A reset by

$ mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/ ~/.config/xfce4-session-bak
$ mv ~/.config/xfce4/ ~/.config/xfce4-bak

did not fix that issue.

Here is the desktop setting window (left) opened from xfce settings menu -> desktop settings and again (right window) opened doing a right mouse click directly on the desktop.

https://ibb.co/qy6CZDT/

The left window behaves ok, but the right window is frozen and has to be killed. Also the content is not ok.

Any suggestions please?

br KH

Last edited by k-3.14 (2021-03-16 18:18:10)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Desktop settings issue [SOLVED]

Can you post the output of running:

xfdesktop-settings

...in a terminal window?

Also, is there anything in your ~/.xsession-errors file when opening the window?

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k-3.14

Member

From: Rhineland

Registered: 2017-02-18

Posts: 156

Re: Desktop settings issue [SOLVED]

Thank you for having a look. But in the meantime I found the issue.

Used

 xfdesktop-settings -e 

and the output of that command made things clear to me..

Had my 'wallpapers' on another drive symlinked to my home folder. The issue was in that 'construction'. Created a new 'wallpapers' folder directly in my home folder, copied all pic there and the issue has gone.

br KH