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claus

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-08-09

Posts: 4

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Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

Hi everyone

Today i installed the latest xfce version (with ubuntu 12.04).

Great work, looks fine. I really like it.

Im not a linux-pro so be nice pls.

After installing, the Desktop-Background disappeared, no desktop-icons and no right-click on the desktop worked.

After some searching, this looks like a familiar bug.

If i did "xfdesktop --reload" in the console all worked but i didnt want to write this on every startup.

I read that nautilus might be the "bad guy" here.

I created a file in /usr/local/bin named "nautilus" containing:

#!/bin/sh
nautilus --no-desktop

did nothing.

I deinstalled nautilus.

Now i have desktop-icons and a wallpaper(but a  bad one), no right-click and the desktop-icons open with a single leftclick.

I don't know what i could try now and hope someone here can help me out

thanks
claus

Last edited by claus (2012-08-09 22:32:41)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,556

Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

Try clearing your sessions cache. Best way to do this is logout, go to first tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1), login to text session, delete the sessions cache:

rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions

...go back to gui (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and log back in.

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claus

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-08-09

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Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

i tried

rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions

and

rm -r ~/.config/xfce-session

i also deinstalled unity and i now have only xfce

Desktop-Wallpaper works and i see the desktop-symbols but the symbols on the desktop disappear after some seconds when i login

ToZ

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Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

And it set to display icons? (Settings Manager -> Desktop -> Icons tab -> Icon Type = File/launcher icons)

And confirmed that nautilus isn't running and xfdesktop is?

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claus

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-08-09

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Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

ps -A

doesnt list nautilus as running

But the xfdeskto was not running!?

Strange thing is, sometimes he don't start the xfdesktop. I don't know why.

ToZ

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Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

What, if anything, does your ~/.xsession-errors log say about xfdesktop not running?

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claus

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2012-08-09

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Re: Desktop Icons&Wallpaper Problem

after the desktop-icons disappear i got following output:

claus@mau:~$ cat ~/.xsession-errors
xfce4-settings-helper: Another instance is already running. Leaving...

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1910): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1910): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-reCvdR/pkcs11: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

(thunar-volman:2091): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2091): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2091): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2095): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2095): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2095): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed
thunar-volman: Nicht unterstützter Gerätetyp.

(thunar-volman:2099): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2099): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed

(thunar-volman:2099): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strstr_len: assertion `haystack != NULL' failed