XFCE profile reset after running startx + super/win key doesn't open app. menu anymore

[anijatsu]

I switch to Linux Mint since I wanted to focus on work. I get greeted by a terminal. It seems startx is complaining about my Xorg conf file for disabling mouse accel.
Fine, I edit the offending part out - adding in quotes around a float:

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Section "InputClass"
            Identifier "My Mouse"
            Driver "libinput"
            MatchIsPointer "yes"
            Option "AccelProfile" "flat"
            Option "AccelSpeed" "0.0"
 EndSection

I type startx after I save the file in nano. It seems XFCE starts... but it's reset my panels...? The taskbar is now at the top of my monitor, and I have an application launcher panel at the bottom. And of course the AccelSpeed property from the Xorg config still doesn't work, just as usual.

I reboot via terminal, thinking startx perhaps just missed some config files that the login daemon normally would?
I get to the GUI login screen this time. I log in, and have the same interface, but with my previously selected dark theme... What could have happened?
Oh, also my Win key doesn't open the applications menu anymore:

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I get "Super L already triggers this action" when I try to rebind it.
In that Mint application for issues reporting I had a message to add the XApp widget to the panel, so I did that, but I also noticed that the Light-Locker application crashed due to libglib or something. Could that be related?

Hence:

• Why did startx seemingly reset my XFCE panel config/settings?
• How do I find my previous config, or figure out where it went?
• How do I fix the Windows key binding?
• Is there a way around having to use xinput in a terminal after every boot so that my mouse is usable, since the Xorg config doesn't apply the speed property?

[mblend27]

A few people have complained about xfce resetting panel settings after reboot, mine was caused by: sudo bash -c $'echo "neofetch" >> /etc/profile.d/mymotd.sh && chmod +x /etc/profile.d/mymotd.sh' I was able to fix by removing said sh file after reboot, then restoring my .configs from a backup (xfce configs mainly). If I keep the SH file in my profile.d dir, it will keep resetting my desktop settings, im not sure what my wm-detect was before this issue, but it is now xfwm4 (maybe this bug simply changing our desktop environment settings from compiz or something? not sure what the default was when I installed, anyone need any more info from me?

As far as I knew, no one could recreate this bug consistently, but I can now, which is why i joined this forum to respond and hopefully get an answer/solution.

[MrEen]

I've said in the past that using /startx may be one common cause of this issue. Use /startxfce4 instead and see if that resolves the issue.