Nautilus Killed my XFCE Backdrop

[Erik Harrison]

On 2/9/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
>
> 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`

killall DOES come on Solaris. It kills -everything-

>
> HTH
> Olivier.
>
>
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Erik

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