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msulli1355
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 Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 3:16 am Post subject: My XFCE desktop is gone! [WORKFORME] |
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On Sundays I run emerge --sync and emerge -uD world. Occassionally I run emerge -avuD world just to make sure no packages are being built with USE flags I don't want. I very very rarely reboot my system. I installed the current system last April/May. Today I rebooted the system. I logged intoo xfce and my desktop background does not show up and there are no icons on my desktop. Clicking the desktop with either the left of the right mouse buttons yields no result. I've done some research on this issue, but haven't found anything that improves the situation.
camille ~ # emerge -pv xfdesktop
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.12.2::gentoo USE="libnotify thunar -debug" 0 KiB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
I don't really know where to go from here in addressing this problem. I thank you for any help you can offer in resolving this problem...
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Buffoon
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| The problem probably lies in config in your home directory. |
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:33 am Post subject: |
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did you check with a new user with a clean homedirectory?
did you checked output of:
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anything to be updated? new? |
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msulli1355
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I logged out, moved /home/mcihael/.config/xfce4 to another directory and logged back in. Although all my settings were reset, no desktop still. So I moved it back. I've issued the command you suggested, but estimate it will take a couple of days at least to complete. This computer will be ten years old in September. I'll let you know when it finishes... |
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Buffoon
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you try creating a test user as tw04l124 recommended? |
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msulli1355
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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I ran:
michael@camille ~ $ xfdesktop &
and now it's back. I don't know why I didn't think of that in the beginning... |
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