Killed desktop while customising group-app.xml

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  1. LinpusNewbie

    LinpusNewbie

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    hi,

    i need some help. I was trying to get rid of the preferences/help button on the start screen of AAO linpus. I was editing the group-app.xml and erased the part where the help button was mentioned (first group in the file) and i rebootet. Now there's no desktop at all, just some half-transparent view of the group-app.xml file and the xfce-setting.

    My code of the group-app.xml file:

    ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <xfdesktop>
    <group>
    <id>1</id>
    <sequence>0</sequence>

    <directory_file exec="" tag_background="/usr/share/backgrounds/images/home-blue-title.png">/usr/share/desktop-directories/Connect.directory</directory_file>
    <background_picture>/usr/share/backgrounds/images/blue-bk.png</background_picture>
    <app is_arrow="1" name="" sequence="3">/usr/share/applications/blue-more.desktop</app>
    </group>

    Thanks for any hints/help :)
     
    LinpusNewbie, Sep 6, 2008
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  2. LinpusNewbie

    sw09

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    I'm do not know what the problem with the code is (I'm new to this), but there is a copy of the group-app.xml file in the /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop directory. If you delete or rename the file in the /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop directory and reboot, it will be automatically replaced by this one, which is the original without your customizations (unless this is the one you have been editing).

    I would also like to know how to delete these buttons (especially the search bar) without making the file unusable.
     
    sw09, Sep 6, 2008
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    rbil

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    Possibly the problem is related to have the html comment ""?

    Cheers.
     
    rbil, Sep 6, 2008
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    uschan

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    The first line should read:
    Code:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    The < is missing.
     
    uschan, Sep 10, 2008
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