Hi all...
I'm running Mint 13 with Xfce and recently my Desktop background just vanished....I have a black screen ....but everything else works fine.
I have all my other items, such as the main menu and tools bars, but I can't get a wallpaper to show up and I can't see my symbolic link icons...
Everything looks fine in terminal.
When I try to reselect a wall paper there' s no errors....
I am at a loss, Google hasn't been helpful with this particular behavior.
Thanks for your help !
wbg
[SOLVED] Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
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[SOLVED] Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
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Re: Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
Hi wannabegeek,
I had the same problem and i found this topic http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=114754 .
In my case a proces 'xfdesktop' not running, so i opened it in application finder (ALT+F2) and everythink works fine
I had the same problem and i found this topic http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=114754 .
In my case a proces 'xfdesktop' not running, so i opened it in application finder (ALT+F2) and everythink works fine
Re: Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
I just found the same solution on Ubuntuforums and was coming here to doc it and mark as solved....
I was expecting email notification of your post but didn't get one...?
Oh well.
Thanks Tomasakr anyhow.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... background
I was expecting email notification of your post but didn't get one...?
Oh well.
Thanks Tomasakr anyhow.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... background
Re: [SOLVED] Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
When I ran xfdesktop yesterday, it then appeared to be running for every session that I had afterwards, even after reboot.
Today , it didn't start....below is my solution, adding it to .bash_profile:
Today , it didn't start....below is my solution, adding it to .bash_profile:
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results=`pgrep xfdesktop`
if [[ $results -gt 0 ]]
then
echo -e "xfdesktop already running, process id: $results\n"
else
echo -e "starting xfdesktop\n"
xfdesktop &
fi
Re: [SOLVED] Desktop Background Missing....can't restore it
another solution...
if xfdesktop keeps getting 'KNOCKED' out alot of times its apps that use (but don't need) nautilus, when they run . See if nautilus is installed and uninstall if is!
JJay
if xfdesktop keeps getting 'KNOCKED' out alot of times its apps that use (but don't need) nautilus, when they run . See if nautilus is installed and uninstall if is!
JJay