[mythtv-users] Backend window manager messed up

[Rob]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running MythBuntu on my home server's backend. The server is in the
> garage and I access it via primarily via VNC.
>
> For a few weeks now, the window manager (Xfce) has been messed up. When I
> log into VNC, it looks 'kind of' like it usually does, but there's no
> visible panel at the top (although I think that's just because other
> windows are in front of it rather than below it) and the other windows on
> screen (Firefox, SpiderOak, TeamViewer etc) don't have a top bar. The bar
> that you use to move, close, maximise and minimise a window. Those top bars
> are simply not there.
>
> Most things seem to be working ok with the server. The MythTV backend is
> functioning fine. My music server (Logitec Media Server) is working fine. I
> seem to remember that Dropbox stopped working, for some reason, a week or
> two before this problem started, but I didn't worry too much about that.
>
> So, it's household function is 'OK', but I can't do anything else on the
> machine because the GUI is messed up.
>
> Do you lovely people have any idea how to fix this?
>

Try logging in via ssh and either deleting or moving the directory that
stores XFCE's desktop configuration.  It's been a while since I've played
with that environment, but my be is that it's either ~/.xfce or some
combination of ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 ~/.gconf ~/.gconf2
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