Xfce4 Settings Trashed?

[Lane P. Lester]

I'm running IceWM right now because my xfce4 panel is empty of anything
except the generic "gear" icons. The laptop system worked fine at home
this morning, but when I booted it at the office, the system hung with
the drive light lit and no mouse response. I had to reset the box to get
it going again. When it rebooted, the xfce4 settings were gone.

I'm running a fairly recent xfce4 from DEBs that Ken Moffatt put
together.

If I'm correct that xfce4rc has the panel settings in it, then I guess
I'm hosed because both it and xfce4rc.bak have only a skeleton in them:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Xfce>
  <Panel orientation="0" layer="0" size="2" popupposition="2"
icontheme="Curve" groups="9">    <Position x="274" y="697"
screenwidth="1024" screenheight="768"/>  </Panel>
  <Groups>
    <Group>
      <Popup/>
      <Control id="-2" popup="1">
        <Command term="0" sn="0"/>
        <Icon id="0"/>
      </Control>
    </Group>
(and more of the same)

Guess I shoulda done a recent backup, huh?

I wish I knew what happened to my system to get xfce4rc and xfce4rc.bak
emptied.

Lane
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Lane P. Lester / Madison County, Georgia
**Running Linux more and Windows less**