popup message before Appearance window

[Albert Wagner]

On 05/02/2011 01:03 PM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> 2011/5/2 Albert Wagner<albertwagner at cox.net>:
>> MintMenu->Preferences->Appearance pops up a message:
>>
>> "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
>> Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take
>> effect. This could indicate a problem with DBus, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE)
>> settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME
>> settings manager."
>>
>> Is this an artifact of using the Mint Menu in the Mint Xfce release?  Can it
>> be remedied?
> Please direct this request to the Mint Linux distribution directly,
> indeed it is abnormal that the Xfce desktop provides a .desktop file
> related to gnome-settings-daemon, instead of
> xfce4-appearance-settings.
>
> Thank you
OK.  But I'm just curious: How am I to know when a problem is answerable 
by the Xfce list and when it must be referred to the underlying distro?