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almahdi

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Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in latest Arch Linux startup

What might've happened and how do we fix such while "ls" in desktop list every file remain intact ?

Last edited by almahdi (2023-01-28 15:34:20)

ToZ

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

Do you mean there is nothing on the desktop? Does the wallpaper work?

First make sure that the xfdesktop process is running. If so, check Settings Manager  Desktop > Icons and make sure "Icon Type" is set to Launcher.

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almahdi

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

even the context-menu click not work

cling to saving heaven panel bar, still easily launch browser to go here

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

ps -ef | grep desktop

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almahdi

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

nothing but the grep process itself

almahdi     3295  3210  0 22:51 pts/0    00:00:00 grep desktop

Last edited by almahdi (2023-01-28 16:18:19)

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

That means that xfdesktop is not running. Try starting it in a terminal window and see if it works or generates errors;

xfdesktop

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almahdi

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

$ xfdesktop

(xfdesktop:3486): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:00:46.703: Found an icon but could not load it. Most likely gdk-pixbuf does not provide SVG support.

obviously this xfdesktop not auto starting, don't know, what thing suddenly made it such.. How to fix then ?

Last edited by almahdi (2023-01-28 18:33:18)

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

Most probably a corrupted cache. The best way to fix this is to reboot and before you log in, go to another tty (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in to the text console, and delete the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions folder.

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almahdi

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Re: Suddenly desktop launcher icons all disappear in last start

should work

unfortunately it's solved sooner as quickly found and applied the command:

https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/102 … -846354514

Thanks much.

Last edited by almahdi (2023-01-29 02:14:42)