Menu and window list no longer show on desktop

[Terry]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Terry wrote:
>   
>> Terry wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I liked that feature, particularly when I could not get the panel in 
>>> view, and I still have the options selected.
>>>
>>> At one point I tried to upgrade Xfce.  I believe it was after that 
>>> failed attempt that the menu and window list stopped displaying.
>>>
>>> Clicking the right mouse button now gets me a drab, Gnome-like context 
>>> menu with 7 unhelpful commands and an 8th command "Change Desktop 
>>> Background".  The middle button gets nothing.
>>>
>>> I tried reinstalling and removing the .config folder in my home 
>>> directory, to no avail.
>>>
>>> I would like to return to the former situation.  How do I do it?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Another problem fixed by installing a later version of Xfce.  The 
>> offending menu was still there but sanity was restored after I opened 
>> and closed the settings module for the desktop.
>>
>>   
>>     
> The symptoms you describe are usually encountered when nautilus is 
> started, taking over the desktop and killing xfdesktop in the process. 
> It is possible that running the settings manager dialog restarts 
> xfdesktop. Running 'killall nautilus' and saving the session when you 
> log out might be needed to prevent nautilus from startig up the next 
> time you log in.
>
>     Jasper

I'm not sure.  Nautilus is actually running, although I do not know why 
because I am not using it.

It is possible that the problem arose after I selected the option to 
start Gnome services on startup, because I prefer to use File-Roller and 
I expected to use Nautilus instead of Konqueror when I wanted to open a 
file from a browser, because Konqueror loses file associations.

I later de-selected the options to start both Kde and Gnome services.

I now have Thunar which is at least as good as Nautilus.

The menu shortcut I was using for Nautilus had the switch --no-desktop.  
I will watch for the connection between Nautilus and the desktop problem 
but, hopefully, Nautilus will not run for any reason.


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