Nautilus Killed my XFCE Backdrop

Craig A. Betts craig_a_betts at raytheon.com
Thu Feb 9 22:05:35 CET 2006


Foxy wrote:
> Craig A. Betts wrote:
> 
>>I used a "feature" in Thunderbird to view a document in an email.  It 
>>launched Nautilus to accomplish this.  Now my XFCE backdrop is all black 
>>and the desktop menu is no longer accessable.  How can I fix this?  I 
>>tried looking at the latest files changed in my home directory (ls 
>>-latr).  The only thing I see that makes sense is .gconf-csw and 
>>.gconfd.  I am running XFCE v4.2.1 (BlastWave Package) on Solaris 10 
>>w/latest patchset.  I also have the complete BlastWave Gnome package 
>>installed.
>>
>>Things I have tried include:
>>
>>* Removing the .gconf-csw and .gconfd directories
>>* Logging out and back in
>>* Looking for processes in ps output that are not normally there
>>
>>TIA
>>  
> 
> ~$ killall nautilus
> ~$ xfdesktop

Forgot to include other details . . .
* nautilus is not running
* xfdesktop is not starting at login
* Manually starting xfdesktop only returns desktop menu, not backdrop
* I do not want to run nautilus

I am assuming the issue is somewhere in either my XFCE settings or 
Gnomes settings.
-- 
Craig A. Betts
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Raytheon - Space & Airborne Systems - Engineering Automation & Computing
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