Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-25 Thread peasthope
At Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:28:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote, "... sometimes, on upgrades, xfce *unchecks* the "Allow xfce to manage desktop" option ..." The setting is in the Desktop Preferences. Easily switched and it solves the problem. Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:32:33PM -0500, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Andrew, > > At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:23:37 -0800 > as-w> ... taskbars available with a menu on them ... > > Right oh. I'd overlooked that. > > as-w> ... taskbars, you can right click ... > > I'd never used "Add new item". > > Thi

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-13 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Andrew, At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:23:37 -0800 as-w> ... taskbars available with a menu on them ... Right oh. I'd overlooked that. as-w> ... taskbars, you can right click ... I'd never used "Add new item". This should let me restore the desktop. Will try this weekend. as-w> ... do you have bot

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:13:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew & others, > > At Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:28:47 -0800, > a> my memory is that sometimes, on upgrades, xfce *unchecks* the "Allow > xfce to manage desktop" option in one of the preference screens. > > I might have caused the p

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-11 Thread peasthope
Andrew & others, At Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:28:47 -0800, a> my memory is that sometimes, on upgrades, xfce *unchecks* the "Allow xfce to manage desktop" option in one of the preference screens. I might have caused the problem by running dselect from a terminal in the xfce GUI. Will have to rememb

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:53:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > This morning I updated a Lenny system which has > XFCE4. After the update the desktop background > was a black & white houndstooth pattern and the > desktop menu was gone. The panels remained > operational. > >

vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-10 Thread peasthope
Folk, This morning I updated a Lenny system which has XFCE4. After the update the desktop background was a black & white houndstooth pattern and the desktop menu was gone. The panels remained operational. Someone please explain why this happens and what repair is recommended. Removing an