last night I updated F12 XFCE on my AAO SSD, there were about 140+ issues to update. after reboot the dialog to select a user and login appeared, continuing nothing shows up -- no menu, no taskbar, no volumes, just the beautiful background. pressing ALT - F2 I am able to start commands, eg Thunar shows up displaying all volumes, files and even NFS remote drives. my conclusion is that everything works exept the desktop... anyone how I can start the XFCE desktop environment so I can use the GUI? thanks, Meine
I searched the net and found: Right-click the desktop, Arrange Icons By and then Show Desktop Icons... just press control+alt+delete and enter new task(run) and then type explorer.exe there... If these don't work let me know - their were more solutions.
right-click on the desktop I tried but nothing... the crtl-alt-del I'll try but explorer.exe seems to be windows? I run Fedora 12 Linux...
Ok - found this... SOLUTION: I installed gtweakui and unchecked, then rechecked the "use nautilus to draw desktop" and that caused the icons to reappear. Hopefully it stays fixed. RESPONSE: Thanks. I just encountered the same problem after update and reboot. The solution from Waggoneer above worked for me
installed the gtweakui but didn't try it yet but I guess it has some interesting possibilities? I also posted my lost-desktop-question on the forums.fedoraforum.org and one suggestion was conclusive: (re)start the xfce4-panel. now I have my GUI back I can work on the rest. thanks a lot for your suggestions! Meine