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Old 11-02-2006, 11:35 AM   #1
m.parthiban
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Unhappy Problem with xfce4 Desktop


Hi all,

Here's the story of my problem :

I am having Xfce4.2.3.2 and Gnome sessions installed in Fedora Core 3 .When i using my xfce session suddenly i am getting Gnome Desktop.
That is with that three icons(Computer,shortcut to home directory and trash) but xfce panel remains .

When i right click it in desktop i'm getting the popup which will appear in Gnome session instead of Xfce popup.When i logout and login i am getting the xfce screens.

what is my problem . Please tell me to solve it .

Thanks
 
Old 11-02-2006, 11:47 AM   #2
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I think you somehow accidentally ran nautilus. Run "ps ex" in a terminal as a normal user and then kill the process number/s that corresponds to nautilus.
 
Old 11-02-2006, 11:49 AM   #3
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You're somehow starting Nautilus I guess. Nautilus is the Gnome file manager (whe window that opens when you open some directory), and nautilus also handles Gnome desktop, mouse menu and so on. If you are using XFCE and launch either Nautilus or some target that uses Nautilus to open itself, you end up with having XFCE panels etc. but having Nautilus handle the desktop system. That's a nasty problem, and back in the days with old KDE I had the same problem with the early Gnome version, having both KDE and Gnome overlap each other.

Solution: figure out where/how you get to run Nautilus and stop doing that.
 
Old 11-02-2006, 08:34 PM   #4
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Thanks for reply ,i killed Nautilus process but even now only the icons are disappeared still i am not getting the xfce desktop and can't getting popup menu when i right click it.

Here's the list of process

3791 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
3832 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server SSH_AGENT_PID=3791 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HIST
3930 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 28 SSH_AGENT_PID=3791 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TER
3950 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=dumb SHELL=/bin/ba
3975 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
4002 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /home/parthiban/.Xclients SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost
4003 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.loc
4007 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=dumb SHELL=/bin/ba
4008 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver -no-splash SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HIST
4011 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/xfce4-session SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HISTS
4014 ? Ss 0:00 xfce-mcs-manager SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HISTSIZE=10
4017 ? S 0:00 xfwm4 --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676800000037120000 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=lo
4019 ? S 0:00 xftaskbar4 --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676900000037120002 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNA
4021 ? S 0:01 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676900000037120001 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTN
4023 ? S 0:00 xterm -title Terminal SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=dumb SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSI
4025 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 USER=par
4046 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain S
4049 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox
4054 ? Sl 1:00 /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox-bin XSUNTRANSPORT=shmem SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localho
4059 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 12 XSUNTRANSPORT=shmem SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain MOZ_PIS_S
4064 ? Z 0:00 [netstat] <defunct>
4094 ? Z 0:00 [netstat] <defunct>
4159 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ex SSH_AGENT_PID=3975 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm HISTSIZE=1000 WINDOWI


Thanks
 
Old 11-03-2006, 03:22 AM   #5
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Did you logout and back in again after killing nautilus?
 
Old 11-03-2006, 04:36 AM   #6
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Yes many times
 
Old 11-03-2006, 09:23 AM   #7
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save session

Quote:
Originally Posted by m.parthiban
Yes many times
check in log out dialouge wether you are saving current sessio or not .
 
Old 11-04-2006, 09:27 AM   #8
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Yes , It is already in the auto save session mode.
 
Old 11-05-2006, 01:45 AM   #9
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thats it

Quote:
Originally Posted by m.parthiban
Yes , It is already in the auto save session mode.
that's it , saving session nd restoring it is what is running nautilus every time .
you should kill nautilus then save session then logout .
moreover xfce by default doesn't use desktop file , it could
be that nautilus has created desktop file for xfce and you should undo that .
see howto on creating xfce session fot gdm :
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=d...tation&lang=en
look at setting up gdm
 
Old 11-05-2006, 09:04 PM   #10
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Since it is already in auto save mode when i killed nautilus at every first time that session is saved. Now nautilus is not running in my system.

The processes running now are:

PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
3199 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
3381 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
3555 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=dumb SHELL=/bin/ba
3580 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
3607 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /home/parthiban/.Xclients SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost
3608 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.loc
3612 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=dumb SHELL=/bin/ba
3613 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver -no-splash SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HIST
3616 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/xfce4-session SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HISTS
3619 ? Ss 0:00 xfce-mcs-manager SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HISTSIZE=10
3622 ? S 0:00 xfwm4 --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676800000037120000 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=lo
3624 ? S 0:00 xftaskbar4 --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676900000037120002 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNA
3626 ? S 0:01 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 117f000001000115384676900000037120001 --display :0.0 SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTN
3628 ? S 0:00 xterm -xtsessionID 117f000001000116278181600000034170002 -title Terminal SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=loc
3630 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm HISTSIZE=1000 USER=par
3662 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 20 XSUNTRANSPORT=shmem SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain MOZ_PIS_S
3678 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain S
3681 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox
3686 ? Sl 0:29 /home/parthiban/Rpms/Firefox/firefox/firefox-bin XSUNTRANSPORT=shmem SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localho
3690 ? Sl 0:01 xmms SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=dumb HISTSIZE=1000 USER=part
3697 ? Z 0:00 [netstat] <defunct>
3723 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ex SSH_AGENT_PID=3580 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 WINDOWI
 
  


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