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rjflory

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Registered: 2014-09-16

Posts: 10

[ SOLVED ] background and associated alt-right dialog stopped working

Hi-
I've been happily using XFCE on multiple x86 Fedora machines for years, but suddenly late last week the WM background went black on one FC-36 system (no more Fedora decoration-backdrop), and the usual dialog that normally opens with right-mouse-button over the background is totally gone- no action at all.  This persists across WM relaunch and reboot.   The auto-hidden "Panel" is still present as a tiny strip at the very top of the screen.

One strange clue/behavior is that if any apps are open in the current window/page, and I click on the background to deselect the application, it does not become deselected.  If I then press Alt-F4 on the keyboard, it closes the app instead of presenting the normal "Log out as xyzzy" dialog.  Once no more apps are active on the current window/page (and the screen is completely black), Alt-F4 does present the normal "Log out as xyzzy" dialog.

I've since updated the machine to FC-37 (XFCE 4.16), but the behavior persists.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?   Maybe a bad 'session-pref' saved?  Might a 'force-reset XFCE to defaults' help me?   How might one do this?

Thanks.

ron

Last edited by rjflory (2022-12-22 14:56:42)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: [ SOLVED ] background and associated alt-right dialog stopped working

Sounds like xfdesktop has crashed and/or is not running. Check to see:

ps -ef | grep xfdesktop

If not, it can be restarted:

xfdesktop &

Clearing the saved sessions cache might help as well (delete the contents of ~/.cache/session while not logged into Xfce).

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rjflory

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Registered: 2014-09-16

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Re: [ SOLVED ] background and associated alt-right dialog stopped working

Your first guess was absolutely correct, 'xfdesktop' was not running.  I must have killed/crashed it somehow.  Its the first time I've ever seen this.

Thank-you very much for your timely and very helpful response.

As an embedded systems developer I generally bring my Linux systems up in raw text-mode, so "I don't always use a GUI, but when I do, I use XFCE"     

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rjflory

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Registered: 2014-09-16

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Re: [ SOLVED ] background and associated alt-right dialog stopped working

hmmm, how do I mark this [ SOLVED ]  ?

ToZ

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Re: [ SOLVED ] background and associated alt-right dialog stopped working

hmmm, how do I mark this [ SOLVED ]  ?

Edit your original post and you will be able to edit the title/subject line.

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