xfdesktop not loading or overrun by Gnome

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:20, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> Actually, here you did not want to save the session after deleting the
> files...
> 
> You might want to recheck the processes running in a console...
> 
> If you have any lingering problems, redo these steps, but do not save
> the session.

Two things...

1) I'm running just fine now, and I did check the processes to see what
was going on. The Evo daemons are still running.

2) I just found out I was in error when I said that the other
workstations weren't running these daemons. <I 'assumed' so because I
wasn't having any problems on the others. Got to stop 'assuming' while
troubleshooting...> They are both without the problems I was having on
this one workstation.

I must have corrupted my session cache. I remember seeing a rather weird
entry out of three that I deleted. It started out with "xfwm-" and ended
in a very long number. In retrospect, I'll bet if I had deleted just
that one I probably would have solved this right off.

> Well, the error messages as I mentioned, were at least partly due to the
> use of SVG images from my recollection of past posts. You might want to
> try using a different theme/theme engine. These are typically hidden
> during session login.

The theme in use is "XFce" and the icon theme is "Rodent". I may be
using some SVG theme icons for some of my additions to the panel menus.
I have made KDE my DE/WM on occasion, and recently I did an upgrade to
KDE 3.3.2, which I believe relies heavily by default on an SVG theme. 
Any of this sound like the cause?

> For future reference, just be careful about saving sessions at logout.
> You should probably set the default to not save, by setting this in the
> "Sessions and Startup Settings" Xfce configuration applet.

I always uncheck this feature. Occasionally I forget to close a term
window and don't wish to see it pop up next time. I may have saved once
by accident when things weren't right. I'll keep your warning in mind.

Paul