On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Gilbert Sullivan <whirly...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 02/04/2012 11:02 AM, lina wrote: >> <snip> >> >> Thanks, it's fixed >> after aptitude purge xfce4 xfce4-session >> and remove some file in .config >> >> I guess there is still remainings, cause once I re-install xfce4 and >> xfce4-session, >> >> it came back again. >> >> All your suggestions are highly appreciated, >> >> Best regards, >> >> > > Hi, Lina. > > Xfce occasionally corrupts its settings for an individual user. I and > others have found that this is more likely to happen immediately after > applying updates, of which there have been quite a few for Xfce recently. >
Hi Gilbert, > I believe that the corruption occurs because most frequently because > Xfce is placed in some intermediate state by the upgrades that have just > been applied, and the user logs out or reboots with the "Save session > for future logins" checkbox enabled. So, the corrupted session gets saved. You are right. Before I was surprised why everytime I reboot it showed me the old terminal, not like restart, more like wake up from hilbernation, later I figured it out. > > Here's a brief procedure that was suggested to me by a member of the > Xfce community. It always works for me when this happens: > > 1. Reboot in recovery mode. (Hit <esc> key during grub splash, and > select recovery mode.) I entered from kernel (recover mode) > > 2. Log in to the recovery console with the root password. > > 3. Use su to change to the affected user id in the console. (su lina, in > this case) > > 4. From the command line delete $HOME/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* > where * will be the machine id:display number. (probably > /home/lina/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-<your_machine_name>:0) I removed all inside the session part. > > 5. Reboot and bring up the system in the usual manner. It works. > > The above procedure can clear corruptions in the session settings > without removing most (any?) of your personally configured settings for > panels, desktop, etc. At worst it can do no harm. Xfce is capable or > re-creating the file you're deleting. I've never had to redo basic > configurations for the desktop after using the procedure. > > I hope that information is useful. If not, then it at least should not > cause you any further troubles. Thanks, it's very helpful. > > Best regards, Best regards, > Gilbert > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2d6df2.90...@comcast.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJm=bhat7ohqccxszrqmz3tdasvnrw1ggv_q1clvh6bd...@mail.gmail.com
