Blank Desktop and Menu Icons On XFCE Install

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Blank Desktop and Menu Icons On XFCE Install

Post#1 by jimwg » 01 Mar 2014, 03:41

Greetings:

If you boot MATE (3.0rc1) on a flash that was installed for XFCE, only blank desktop and menu and title bar icons appear and I lose configs for wifi and desktop images. Everything else seems to work well, but how could I fix this condition?

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Re: Blank Desktop and Menu Icons On XFCE Install

Post#2 by brokenman » 01 Mar 2014, 18:10

In theory there should be no difference. You should be able to move the xfce module out of the base folder, drop in the mate module and reboot to a mate desktop. The first test would be to do exactly this and then boot with no changes to see if the problem resides within the changes folder/file. If all is good then start looking at changes within the user directory.
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Re: Blank Desktop and Menu Icons On XFCE Install

Post#3 by fanthom » 01 Mar 2014, 20:34

please run /opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/update-caches (name of the script could be little different), relogin and see if that helps.
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Re: Blank Desktop and Menu Icons On XFCE Install

Post#4 by brokenman » 07 Mar 2014, 01:29

Yep that will be it. Changes is storing the menu caches from xfce. I was going to send you a cache file script we use here for developing but i see fanthom has pointed out a more elegant solution. I lost track of this thread and just remembered to answer. :oops:
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