Blank Desktop Background After Login to Xubuntu or XFCE Session

[livingegg]

Hello All. I am hoping someone will be able to lend some advice that will spare me from needing to do a fresh install. I recently installed Xubuntu 12.04.2 on my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, and everything was running smoothly until today when I logged in to a Xubuntu Session with my admin account and got only a blank desktop background. I then tried rebooting and logging into an XFCE Session for the same account (through the dropdown control in the login screen) and it loaded up fine. Believing I may have previously installed an update that caused the broken Xubuntu Session, I installed all the latest updates. I then rebooted and now the issue is occuring with both Xubuntu and XFCE sessions! I am still able to launch a guest session successfully. Any ideas on how I can start diagnosing this? All I have tried so far is ctrl+alt+F1 during the blank desktop session (which successfully gets a terminal) and ctrl+alt+del (which does nothing).

[Toz]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

It sounds like xfdesktop may have crashed. You could try cleaning out your sessions cache.
1. While not logged in, go back to the first tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1).
2. Log in to the text console
3. Run the following commands:

cd $HOME/.cache
rm -rf sessions

4. Go back to the gui tty (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and log in normally again.

[livingegg]

You, sir, are a genius. Wiping out the sessions cache did indeed fix the issue. Many thanks!

[Toz]

Glad to help. If you don't mind, can you please mark this thread [SOLVED] as per the instructions in my signature?
Thanks