I have installed xfce on Ubuntu 16.04. Sometimes, the background picture disappears and the picture that I had in Unity background shows up. Besides, the right clicking on desktop doesn't have all options that it has in normal situation.
2 Answers
This could be caused by nautilus. I had the same problem, when I used nautilus, in xfce the same problem happened.Instead of using nautilus
in terminal or in your key board settings, use Thunar
, then your file manager starts.
I fixed a similar problem to this by running xfdesktop &
and then rebooting the computer.
You could also try this:
rm -R ~/.cache/sessions/*
xfdesktop
sudo reboot
or even a
xfdesktop -R
Liked this question (very similar!) but with more answers more scientific. Desktop icons not showing up in xubuntu (and I cant right click on the desktop)
(also read on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/151471/desktop-background-appears-black-when-using-xfce , https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2229553 and https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisTitusTech/comments/oqsx0k/solution_for_xfdesktop_problem_no_wallpaper/ )