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roluan17

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Registered: 2019-04-01

Posts: 43  

desktop grey

This has already happened twice in the meantime: after updating there is an empty desktop. I didn't do anything and after a while ( I can't remember how long) and after updating regularly everything was back. This time I thought I try to learn where Devuan puts its desktop configuration or better said: what can I do?

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP==>XFCE

inxi -Fz :
System:
  Host:devuan Kernel: 4.19.0-25-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
  Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: extra product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B75M-D3H v: x.x serial: <filter>
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: F12 EP date: 12/04/2012
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP
  L2 cache: 6144 KiB
  Speed: 1599 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1597 2: 1596
  3: 1597 4: 1597
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics
  driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,486  

Re: desktop grey

The xfce configuration files are in /etc/xdg/xfce4/ for the defaults, and any changes the user makes to the desktop are stored in ~/.config/xfce4. Other desktop configs are also in ~/.config.

One thing you can try is to move the configs out of the way, log out and log in again. That will make it like the very first login. Then you can inspect the old configs to see if something changed.