Missing Desktop

[Marshall Neill]

Whoops, saw this after I replied.




On 02/17/2017 08:21 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 02/17/2017 05:47 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 02/17/2017 01:41 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Fedora Core 25
>>> Xfce 4.12
>>>
>>> One of my Fedora machines booted up without its desktop.
>>> Both launchers came up.  The desktop is gray, all the icons
>>> are gone, and right clicking on the desktop does nothing.
>>>
>>> What do I need to restart?
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -T
>>>
>>
>>
>> $ ps ax | grep -i xfce
>>   937 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- vt
>>  1085 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l
>> /bin/bash -c "startxfce4"
>>  1110 ?        Sl     0:00 xfce4-session
>>  1114 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
>>  1119 ?        Sl     0:00 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id
>> 20f79e027-415b-4c96-806a-e0e6478b8654
>>  1127 ?        Ssl    0:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id
>> 2442b541a-e5db-40d8-86dc-02cd9eebd234
>>  1128 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/xfce-polkit
>>  1173 ?        Ssl    0:00 xfce4-power-manager
>>  1176 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
>> /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 8388638 systray
>> Notification Area Area where notification icons appear
>>  1177 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
>> /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 2 8388639 actions Action
>> Buttons Log out, lock or other system actions
>>  1263 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
>>  1355 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
>>  1387 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto -i xfce
>>
>>
>
>
> Never mind.  When I found the keyboard wasn't working
> at boot, I just overwrote the drive.  Sounds way more
> drastic than it is.  This is a flash drive I have a
> dd gold copy I just over wrote the drive.  I use this
> flash drive to rescue machines and it get corrupted
> A LOT!  So, I just overwrite it when that happens.
>
>