Desktop disapeares

[Stefan Stuhr]

lør, 13 05 2006 kl. 17:40 +0200, skrev Alexander Toresson:
> On 5/13/06, Gregor Koseleck <lordmongrove at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Whatever, the background of xfce is just brown. Before
> > that happens, there was the xfce-picture in the
> > background. The settings says that the picture is
> > still activated and the colorsettings the default blue
> > one. When I change the picture or the color of the
> > background, nothing happens. There is still this
> > (ubuntu-)brown background.
> > I got also no desktopmenu; when I leftclick on the
> > background, no menu appeares.
> > [...]
> 
> Kill nautilus and start xfdesktop (alt-f2 -> xfdesktop)

It doesn't sound to me like Nautilus is running. AFAIK, Ubuntu (GDM?)
sets the background color to brown before starting Xfce.
So, xfdesktop isn't running, and it needs to be started in order to
control the desktop.

> Regards, Alexander Toresson

Stefan