Nautilus Killed my XFCE Backdrop

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Craig,


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.

That's "normal". You ran nautilus that draws onto the desktop and it 
kills the previous app using it (ie xfdesktop)...

To fix that, simply run a terminal and type:

killall nautilus
xfdesktop&

PS: Dunno if Solaris comes with killall (I doubit it), in case I think 
you can use kill `pidof nautilus`

HTH
Olivier.