I originally was using Gnome on Ubuntu-Hardy. I then tried installing XFCE via synaptec, but that didn't work. So I tried via apt, and that worked, sort of, but now I have all kinds of problems. I'm hoping there's one or two simple solutions for all of these, otherwise, I'll just have to go back to gnome.

Here's a short list of the problems that I've kept track of. It's not all of them though.

* Error message: * Some applications installed in gnome don't appear in XFCE, such as Konqueror. I know that's a KDE based app, but why wouldn't it carry over? It shows up in the app list for XFCE.

* Lost user prefs, such as browser prefs/bookmarks, and Pidgin info, and other things.

* Save locations have been altered, such as my default browser save location was the desktop for gnome, and now it's 'root'...........somewhere.......

* The "Move to Trash" option in the right click menu has disappeared, and some files that I have downloaded via XFCE even have the 'delete' option greyed out so I'm stuck with them!

* At least one of my codecs seems to be missing or non-fucntional, FLAC. VLC won't even play it now.

* File transfer status box is missing when dragging files from ROM drive to hard disk.

* (Solved.......I think...) Missing taskbar/panel.

Like I said, this is the short list, and I'm already going crazy! Is this because XFCE was not my original installed desktop, or is this what every XFCE user has to deal with?

If there's no magic fix for this, then I'll have to go back to gnome, as I don't have time to babysit a new desktop with all the stuff I have to do.

Any help is much appreciated!

XFCE is a lightweight desktop. It has it's own configs and defaults, which are different from KDE and Gnome. You can't expect all the features of a much heaver desktop without the bloat.

Oh, did you just install xfce or xubuntu-desktop ? Might make a difference......just use adept or synaptic and search for xubuntu, it'll bring up a few other packages you might want.... xubuntu-default-setting maybe too....

David