Help I've wiped out my xfce display -

[Bob Goodwin]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 10/27/2006 3:53 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>> lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:52:33AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> 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?
>>     
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> 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.
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>> 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?
>>     
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> Run xfdesktop from the command line to start.  xfce4-panel will help as
> well.
>
> 	-brian
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            Thank you, your suggestions are appreciated. I mostly need
            to be pointed in the right direction ...

            Bob Goodwin

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