Unable to get the desktop menu when right clicked on desktop.

[Bob Snyder]

Ravi Kumar wrote:

>Hello,
>       I am a new convert to xfce. Prior to that, I was using Gnome. I
>am very satisfied with the working of this light weight window
>manager. But I have run into a problem.
>
>Yesterday, I installed a shell emulator called Yakuake in Linux
>running xfce. Before that I was able to get the desktop menu on xfce.
>But after this program started, even when I right click on the
>desktop, nothing is happening. I believe that it has to do with the
>configuration parameters because I tried logging in using another user
>account and I did not find any problem.
>
>I would like to know what is  causing this problem and how to remove
>this. I searched for .xfce directory in my home folder and couldn't
>find it. Also I tried deleating config/ folder which also did not
>solve the problem.
>
>I would appreciate your help.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Regards
>Ravi
>

Most likely xfdesktop, the program that creates the desktop background 
and the desktop menu, was killed somehow and when you logged out the 
first time the session manager saved it that way. Just run 'xfdesktop' 
and it should come back. If so, be sure to 'save session' when you logout.

Bob S.