Backdrop Settings Manager is not working

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Matthias Fechner wrote:

>Hello Brian,
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>* Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> [17-07-04 09:26]:
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>>assuming i'm reading your package output correctly, you don't even have 
>>xfdesktop installed, and therefore no backdrop settings.
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>sorry, the grep parameter filtered it out:
>ii  xfdesktop4               4.0.5-4
>ii  xfdeskmenu4              4.0.0+cvs.20021222-2
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all right...  debian does some things a little differently, so i may be 
off here.  the plugin for the backdrop settings dialog should be located 
at $prefix/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/backdrop_settings.so, where $prefix may 
be /usr, /usr/local, etc.  check to see if that file is present.  if 
not, your packages are broken - try reinstalling it.  otherwise you 
should take it up with the package maintainer.  if it _is_ present, i 
really have no idea why it isn't loading, as xfce-mcs-manager should 
have printed out something useful if it tried to load it and failed.

    -brian