Dude broke his XFCE

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Jeffrey Sabarese wrote:
> sorry if this seems a duplicate. i did search my email, but i don't
> think i received any replies to my first report of XFCE failing to
> load on my system
> 
> i had been using XFCE (as shipped with FC5) for several weeks, but in
> early April it "stopped working". by now, i don't recall what i might
> have done to cause this-- i don't think i had any idea at the time
> either, so i'm sorry i don't have much to provide in the way of
> "supporting evidence"; clues to help solve the mystery.
> 
> THE PROBLEM:
> when "booting into XFCE", the Task-Bar at the top loads, plus a few
> "auto-start" items in the taskbar tray, such as KNotes, Klipper,
> Beagle
> 
> the "XFCE Menu" (the "main menu" with all launchers [and printer and
> clock by default, etc.]) -- it does not load-- therefore the desktop
> manager is currently useless.
> 
> logging out is also impossible in this condition (AFAIK) w/out a hard shut-down.

It's really hard to tell with so little informations.

1) Try Alt+F2, type "xterm" and click on "run"
2) From the xterm, type
   xfce4-panel&
   xfdesktop&

Other idea:

1) Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in console mode
2) Rename .config and .cache
   mv $HOME/.config $HOME/.config.old
   mv $HOME/.cache $HOME/.cache.old
3) Log in in Xfce again

My rough guess is that you somehow broke the running apps and log out
and saved the (broken) session so things don't get restored anymore.
HTH
Cheers,
Olivier.
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