xfdesktop not loading or overrun by Gnome

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:12, Erik Harrison wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:49:34 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo
> <pmbuc at pmbservices.com> wrote:
> > Just recently I noticed one of my WBEL boxes running XFce 4.2 doing
> > something strange and so far irreversible. I noticed that right after
> > xfce-panel is loaded by the session manager, it loads up
> > evolution-alarm-notify. Then the session background is replaced with the
> > Gnome desktop with icons. If I kill the desktop background and run
> > xfdesktop, I get my desktop sans right-click menu. It most likely is a
> > Gnome problem, but I can't seem to figure out where to find the
> > solution. I used the gconf editor to uncheck any references to nautilus
> > controlling the desktop. I tried using KDM instead of GDM. I tried
> > killing the Gnome desktop, starting up xfdesktop and then saving the
> > session. Nothing works! Any ideas or suggestions?
> > 
> 
> What's happened is you have a saved session where these programs are
> running. After you fix the situation for a single session, you're not
> saving the new session, and the old one is being restored.
> 
> Setup your desktop just like you want it to be when you log in, then
> log out, checking the save session box. Then log back in, and all
> should be well.

Thanks, but 'been there, done that'. Done this quite a few times with no
results. :0/ 

Paul