Xfce theme switching caused Xfce to crash and now it would not to start - any suggestions for reset or re-config to default

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed May 5 17:32:22 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 05 May 2010 10:21 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion how to reset Xfce (ver. 4 of Fedora 12)
> so it would start again.
>
> I was switching themes to check them out and some setting cause Xfce
> to crash, and now Xfce
> is kicking me out to the login. I can only log in with Gnome or
> command line interface.
>
> Is there are a restore option, and if not where is the actual config.
> file that I could use to
> switch to the default theme. (I got to check which one is it first :-) )
>

Try renaming the xfce-session files directory. They are in ~/.config/. 
If that doesn't work out you can try renaming the entire xfce settings 
directory, same place again.

$ ls -d .config/xfce4*
.config/xfce4  .config/xfce4-session  .config/xfce4-taskmanager.rc

> Thank you,
> Edmon

GL
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Suvayu

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