Nautilus Killed my XFCE Backdrop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Olivier Fourdan 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`

A bit OT... Last I checked, Solaris does come with killall, but it
actually does what the name implies: it tries to kill all processes on
the system (and will barf if you try to run it as non-root).  You can
probably use "pkill nautilus", though I'm not sure if Solaris comes with
that either.

	-brian


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