On Wed, 5 May 2010, Ondrej Majerech wrote:

Try renaming your ~/.config/xfce4 and ~/.config/xfce4-session to something else and see if that allows you to use your desktop again.

I wish I'd thought of that.  Here's what I did:

After a reboot, and not having attempted to start X or xfce...
mkdir ~/backup
mv ~/.config ~/backup
startxfce4 (or startx if .xinitrc starts xfce4)
xfce starts with defaults.
Click "quit" button in panel, or right-click desktop,
  Applications/Log Out.
Click "Log Out".
rm -rf ~/.config (this is the new copy just created by xfce).
mv ~/backup/.config ~

After that, xfce starts every time. Or at least every time I've tried--20 times in a row on one system. And it's worked on two systems.

Now why it worked...

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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