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New wallpaper problem with Stretch Xfce

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New wallpaper problem with Stretch Xfce

#1 Post by No_windows »

I've got Stretch 686 pae, with Xfce, running on an old Dell laptop. It was not an upgrade from Jessie. Just before I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2, I noticed that I could no longer access "Desktop" directly from the "Settings" menu and expect it to work....... most of the wallpapers don't show, or appear correctly, and clicking on anything does nothing. I get one wallpaper that's totally black, for instance. If I access "Desktop" from the "Settings Manager" it works fine.

Please note, this is not the problem that people are having where everything is greyed out.

Any ideas on what is wrong with it?

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#2 Post by No_windows »

Ok, over the time I've been at work I would have thought I would have a response. Is there something I'm being unclear about, or need to explain further?

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#3 Post by Bulkley »

No_windows wrote:Ok, over the time I've been at work I would have thought I would have a response. Is there something I'm being unclear about, or need to explain further?
Or maybe nobody has an answer.

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#4 Post by GarryRicketson »

That is why I have not replied, I don't know and can not even think of where to start looking if I tried to do a search on this , sorry.

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#5 Post by Segfault »

Such problems usually are in users home directory, some configuration file is not compatible with upgrade or got borked.

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#6 Post by No_windows »

Something that occurred to me later, I believe the program is actually crashing. I can't even close it normally. If I try to close it, I get the window/program is not responding message and do I want to close it?

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#7 Post by stevepusser »

The command to restart the desktop is

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xfdesktop -R
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#8 Post by No_windows »

stevepusser wrote:The command to restart the desktop is

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xfdesktop -R
It's a laptop, it gets rebooted all the time.

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#9 Post by No_windows »

I decided to switch wallpapers again, and tried to try access "desktop" from the settings menu instead of the settings manager, just to see if it would work. It did work, so apparently one of the updates that's occurred since starting this thread fixed the problem for me.

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#10 Post by debiman »

No_windows wrote:
stevepusser wrote:The command to restart the desktop is

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xfdesktop -R
It's a laptop, it gets rebooted all the time.
that command doesn't reboot, it restarts the desktop manager.
(but i'm a bit late with that)

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#11 Post by No_windows »

debiman wrote:
No_windows wrote:
stevepusser wrote:The command to restart the desktop is

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xfdesktop -R
It's a laptop, it gets rebooted all the time.
that command doesn't reboot, it restarts the desktop manager.
(but i'm a bit late with that)
Yes,I know. However the desktop gets restarted on a reboot. Honestly, I don't know why the command was pointed out in the first place. It didn't seem to do anything, but the desktop manager was already running so....?

I suspect people do not really know what I'm talking about, but since it seems to be fixed after more recent updates, I'm not going to worry about it.



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#14 Post by debiman »

you said it's fixed.
please mark your thread SOLVED by editing the title of your first post.

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#15 Post by No_windows »

debiman wrote:you said it's fixed.
please mark your thread SOLVED by editing the title of your first post.
Nothing was solved, there's no solution here. It' simply started working correctly after a few weeks.

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#16 Post by HuangLao »


Does not need to be, it points you towards possible solutions from an ongoing Xfce problem that pops every so often...

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#17 Post by HuangLao »

No_windows wrote:
debiman wrote:you said it's fixed.
please mark your thread SOLVED by editing the title of your first post.
Nothing was solved, there's no solution here. It' simply started working correctly after a few weeks.
If it started working again then its solved....

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#18 Post by No_windows »

HuangLao wrote:

Does not need to be, it points you towards possible solutions from an ongoing Xfce problem that pops every so often...
I'm going to stick with looking for solutions that match the problem.

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