background, panel and RMB menu not loading after Nautilus crashed

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Christian Barth wrote:

> I have a small problem with Xfce4.2 (running on a gentoo box)
> Evereything worked fine, but the I tried Nautilus (to get some Icons 
> on my desktop), but Nautilus crashed.
> I quitted the session (but unfortunately I had "save session" 
> activated) and now each time I start Xfce there is no background (only 
> black), no panel and no RMB-menu.
> Does someone have an idea to get my Xfce working again.

due to some weirdness i haven't been able to figure out, nautilus causes
xfdesktop to terminate (not crash) when nautilus takes over the
desktop.  just make sure nautilus isn't running, run xfdesktop, and be
sure to save your session when you log out.

    -brian