Hi everyone,
I've had the following issue for about 6 months starting with a version 11 pre 11.10 (not sure which one it was), just upgraded to 12.04 hoping the issue would go away but it didn't (upgrade not a clean install). I've looked everywhere and don't seem to be able to solve it. I'm not exactly a Linux guru, I just use it. I don't know how to fix it when it breaks. I was hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction.
Problems (I believe they are all connected with desktop functions):
1)There are no icons on desktop
2) The right click context menu on the desktop does not work
3) I can't set the wallpaper. If I set it through Settings Manager > Desktop, it makes no difference it's always the same default one that comes with Xubuntu.
I've had this problem since some point in Xubuntu version 11. An update at some point may have caused the problem. It was not working in 11.10, I've just upgraded to 12.04 and there is no difference
I don't run Compositor, if I do the desktop is entirely gray, leaves window drag trails and I sometimes get focus order issues. e.g. The screen with focus will be behind the screen that does not have focus.
- I have tried changing the tick box for save session on logout, it makes no difference
- I use a startup script to set my system into dual screen /home/myusername/.screenlayout/screen.sh. The scripts screen settings were created by ARandr or Grandr or Xrandr (one of those)
My dual screen setup is a laptop with a large external display. The laptop screen goes on the left and the large screen on the right, but the system never remembers this arrangement which is why I use the script. Turning the script off and reverting to a single screen makes no difference to the desktop issue of wallpaper, right click and context menu
- I have played around with theme config files etc.. in the past before the problem occurred (I can't remember exactly what I did, but mostly changed colours etc... in the config files). Changing to a different theme that I haven't messed with doesn't solve the problem.
I was thinking that maybe the issue would be rectified with a newer version of xfwm? But have not been able to figure out how to change it without breaking anything and I was hoping 11.10 to 12.04 may have had a change (I still don't know if it has or not, I've forgotten what the command is to get the version number).
I run my main xfce panel at the top of the screen, and I sometimes run a 2nd panel at the bottom (kind of like OSX kicker style but I'm just using xfce panels, no cairo dock or anything). If I set the bottom panel to autohide it does not come back on mouse over actions (occasionally it does and I haven't worked out what the trigger is)
I don't know which log files to look out to try to find the problem (any tips for that? What sort of errors or warnings am I looking for?)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I'll probably just wipe and it and start again soon.
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