Help I've wiped out my xfce display -

[Bob Goodwin]

lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:52:33AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> This time I decided to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 and save the trouble of 
>> reconfiguring everything ... but it turns our nothing is ever easy, not 
>> for me anyway!
>>
>> After doing a yum update and rebooting this morning XFCE produced a 
>> different display than what has evolved from my settings over the last 
>> year or more.
>>
>> So I spent about an hour trying to get back to where I want to be, set 
>> things to remember my settings, and then when I clicked on an item in 
>> the settings screen both "panels" appeared to go to [permanent] autohide 
>> [?] and all I have now is a black screen with a cursor.  Nothing I do 
>> gets me back to a menu or settings screen.
>>
>> Is there a way to restore the defaults if nothing else.  The alternative 
>> now seems to be to remove/re-install xfce ...  Seems there ought to be a 
>> better way?
>>     
>
> shouldn't this be directed to fedora than in here? seems to me, they've
> updated xfce4.2 to xfce4.4. they don't have compatible configurations.
> mk
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Are you saying that FC6 contains a version of xfce that is not going to 
be stable?

There appears to be a problem in that it has crashed again while I was 
trying to remove a "clock date" application from the panel. I dragged it 
from the panel to the menu per the instruction, that appeared to work, 
but several seconds later the menu closed and both panels were gone. 
Since I had it set to "autohide" and save my configuration on the next 
boot and I am looking at a blank screen now, I can only repair from the 
command line. What do I need to change/delete to get the xfce desktop back?

Thank you.

Bob Goodwin