On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Margot wrote: > I've been using XFCE4 for a while now after switching from KDE - > much quicker to load, simple layout, does what I want it to > do...until now. > > I set a nice simple desktop layout - panel at the bottom, icons > growing up the right hand side, taskbar at the top, a plain purple > background with a small picture of my cat in the middle so I have a > friendly face to look at when all windows are closed - my one > concession to eye candy! > > Last night, while I was checking my emails, my desktop changed > itself! I still have the same XFCE4 layout of panel, icons and > taskbar, but my purple & cat background disappeared and was replaced > with what looks like KDE! Blue background, stars & 10 logo bottom > right, and a sprinkling of icons - the very same icons that I > created on my desktop when I used KDE! > > Too tired to deal with it last night, so closed down & left it to > the morning. Booted & logged in this morning, got a quick flash of > my normal purple & cat background, then the KDE lookalike background > appeared again!!! > > Right-clicking on the desktop itself, and selecting the "Change > Desktop Background" option, I get the standard Mandrake choices - > what I'm seeing at the moment. And I tested the icons - they work > (on a double-click). > > Using the XFCE4 settings launcher from the panel and choosing > "Desktop:backdrop" it shows that I have selected the purple > background with the centred picture of my cat - but this is not > being displayed! > > What have I broken? How do I fix it? > > Margot > > >
I had a similar problem when I first started using pekwm. Everytime I fired up nautilus it also brought up the gnome background. I discovered that 'nautilus --no-desktop' fixes this problem. I am not sure if KDE/konquerer has a similar feature but it might be something to look into.
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