Help I've wiped out my xfce display -

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 10/27/2006 3:53 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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?

That's not up to us.  That's up to Fedora.

Again, perhaps you should first try Fedora's bug tracker and/or support
forums.  We don't know what verson of Xfce they are packaging, and we
don't know what patches they've applied to our source.

> 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?

Run xfdesktop from the command line to start.  xfce4-panel will help as
well.

	-brian

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