Desktop icons and wallpaper invisible unless xfdesktop is terminated

phre4k · 2012-03-27 15:43:09

Hello,

Sometimes when I start my Xubuntu 11.10 and log in, the desktop icons and background image show for a short moment and then disappear. I found out that if I terminate xfdesktop by typing "killall xfdesktop", the icons and background appear again. Everything works normally from that point.
Do you have any advice how to prevent that in the future?

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't include the program version. A "xfdesktop -V" shows me that it is xfdesktop version 4.8.3, on Xfce 4.8, created with GTK+ 2.24.6 and linked with GTK+ 2.24.6.

Last edited by phre4k (2012-04-01 09:08:14)

angstrom · 2012-03-27 18:53:23

May be a conflict with nautilus ? Do you have Nautilus running when you log in ?

phre4k · 2012-03-31 18:16:29

Yes, Nautilus is running. How did that happen? I did not even know I have it installed.
Nautilus doesn't appear in the list of automatically started applications in the XFCE settings center. How do I disable starting Nautilus?

wkr · 2012-03-31 18:55:03

Go to Startup and sessions, then session tab, and search for nautilus. Kill it, then at log-out tick "save session".
There is a way to launch nautilus with --no-desktop argument in gnome-settings-editor, I forgot how.

phre4k · 2012-04-01 09:07:46

That looks like a workaround to me, which is not what I want.
I just removed nautilus via package management and the error doesn't occur anymore. However I'm interested in the circumstances which lead to the strange behavior.

angstrom · 2012-04-02 11:04:29

This can come from your distribution default configuration.
Or may be one time you run nautilus without noticing it and it register in startup session
Or may be you have enable autostart Gnome service ?

phre4k · 2012-04-02 14:13:15

Yes, I do have ticked the "start Gnome runtime libraries on startup" (sloppy translation from German) in the XFCE backend.

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Desktop icons and wallpaper invisible unless xfdesktop is terminated

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