On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > dmacdoug wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > Is xfdesktop running? > > > No, it isn't. It looks like pretty much everything else in > > xfce is running, but xfdesktop isn't. > > Assuming it's installed (good point, Lisi), I would try just running it > from a shell or Alt-F2. Once you get it running, as long as you have > your session set to remember what processes are running, it should start > when you log in again. >
It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:" so I guess it's trying to find some arguments in some config file. I've looked for where it might be looking for them and why it can't parse them but there seem to be quite a few config xml files and I haven't yet figured out which one or ones it is attempting to parse and why it can't parse them. I was hoping it might have an option to run verbosely so I could see where it is failing but no such luck. I may have to download the source and read it to find out where those error messages are pointing to. If someone can suggest an easier way, I'm all ears. Thanks for letting me know that once I get it to start xfce should keep track of that and restart it the next time, I didn't know that. Don
