Upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 has broken my system, no X desktop

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:33:30PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 19:29 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 08:25:19PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > > I just upgraded my system from xubuntu 13.04 to 13.10.
> > > >
> > > This sounds more like an Xubuntu issue rather than an Xfce one.
> > > Consider addressing it to xubuntu-users.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, yes I've done that, and removing ~/.config/xfce has got my desktop
> > back (without any customisations of course).
> 
> This typically points at a change that was made in the distro... 
> 
> You could have moved ~/.config/xfce to ~/.config/xfce.orig and recovered
> changes.
> 
I did actually, I have the original one as ~/.config/xfce.old.


> But since this is XFCE, it doesn’t take long to re-setup your
> desktops... that is at least when I start afresh on a new machine
> without transferring things.
> 
Yes, mine wasn't all that heavily customised, just a couple of panel
changes and that's about it.

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Chris Green