Nautilus Killed my XFCE Backdrop

[Craig A. Betts]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> 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-

The Solaris command is "pkill {processname}"

Don't panic, I know what killall does in Solaris.  :-)


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