Nothing on desktop XFCE

[FrankRizz0]

Morning all! Decided to try out XFCE and loving it so far, but I have one problem. Nothing shows up on my desktop. Conky is running in terminal, but not there. No icons on my desktop either, but they are checked off to show up. I'm assuming this would be an easy fix, probably something that's not installed, or configured. When my terminal or whatever else I have running is minimized, they are there. Thanks in advance for any assistance!

[papahuhn]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-904120.html
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[FrankRizz0]

Thanks very much, I did search for a resolution but I guess I gave up too quickly

[ultraincognito]

Have you solved your problem?

[FrankRizz0]

Just waiting for compile to complete. I was installing a few other packages before hand, so I'm just now waiting for xfdesktop to complete.

[FrankRizz0]

Damn, didn't work.

[ultraincognito]

I have had the same problem. Is your Thunar compiled with the 'dbus' USE flag?

[FrankRizz0]

Yeah dbus is in my make.conf.

[ultraincognito]

Is xfce-base/xfdesktop compiled with 'thunar' USE flag?

[FrankRizz0]

Yup.

[ultraincognito]

Does you see a panel or generally nothing?

[FrankRizz0]

Yeah my panel is there, but my icons aren't. Conky now shows up though

[FrankRizz0]

Also, conky does not have any transparency My mistake, it just decided to go transparent.

[FrankRizz0]

Restarted conky, now it doesn't want to be transparent

[ultraincognito]

Do

[FrankRizz0]

I'm sorry do that where and say what?

[ultraincognito]

In a terminal in the Xfce execute:

[FrankRizz0]

OK tried xfdesktop --reload here is the out put in terminal:

$ xfdesktop --reload

(xfdesktop:29339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:29339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:29339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:29339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "mist",

[ultraincognito]

Do you see? It's little but success!
Do you have installed latest x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce?

[FrankRizz0]

Damn I wish you were right mate. I emerge it, but same error:

$ xfdesktop --reload

(xfdesktop:3409): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:3409): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:3409): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

(xfdesktop:3409): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "mist",

And still no desktop icons

[ultraincognito]

Do you have installed x11-themes/tango-icon-theme?

[FrankRizz0]

I do now and still nothing...exact same error too when I try xfdesktop --reload

[papahuhn]

For transparency this might help:

own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
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[FrankRizz0]

Well that definitely helped out conky, but still no desktop icons.......

[Ion Silverbolt]

What does it look like under Start-->Settings-->Desktop-->Icons? There should be something set for Icon type that appears on the desktop. Make sure it's not set to none.