no more desktop menu pop-up?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 1/20/2006 3:47 PM, Mr Machine wrote:
> sofar wrote:
>> I'm adding this FAQ to the FAQ - if the right-click menu is missing or suddenly the desktop wallpaper disappears - chances are that your xfdesktop program died. Here's the (updated) FAQ entry for this:
>>
>> + My desktop or desktop menu has disappeared!?
>>
>> It appears that xfdesktop is no longer in control of the desktop. Often
>> xfdesktop has died, or some other program took over the desktop. Make
>> sure that xfdesktop is still running first. Nautilus takes over the
>> desktop by default too. Please start nautilus with the --no-desktop
>> flag, or use gconfig-editor and unset the flag that tells nautilus to
>> handle the desktop. Start xfdesktop again and you should be OK again.
> 
> very strange. xfdesktop *wasn't* running - and i couldn't get it to run 
> unless xffm-deskview was killed :(

Not surprising.  They aren't intended to coexist.  xfdesktop will quit
on startup if it detects another MANAGER selection owner on that screen.
 Unfortunately, most other desktop managers aren't so polite.

> something must have changed recently, because as far as i know they 
> could co-exist before, but now seem to be mutually exclusive? problem is 
> that xfdesktop doesn't give icons on the desktop, but xffm-deskview 
> (which does put icons on desktop) no longer shows the menu pop-up on 
> right-click - even though i've set it to do so in the file manager 
> settings.

I thought Edscott added a plugin to the deskview so you could still get
at the menu, but I'm not sure.

> i think it's starting to get confusing the "differences" between 
> xffm-deskview and xfdesktop.

Agreed.  I'm not sure how to solve this particular problem, though.

	-brian

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