Desktop icons not showing up in xubuntu (and I cant right click on the desktop)
Solution 1:
Answered by OP in comments:
navigate to ~/.cache/sessions/
delete any xfce*session directories
run
xfdesktop(as your normal user, not root)logout and log in again
Solution 2:
I was having the same problem; xfdesktop (the XFCE desktop manager) should start up automatically, but from one day to another, it stopped doing so.
Symptoms: no wallpaper, no desktop icons, no desktop context menu, no response to Alt+F2.
The problem spontaneously disappeared after taking the following steps. Step 1 is probably sufficient, but since I can no longer reproduce the problem, there is no way of knowing for sure.
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rm -R ~/.cache/sessions/*(shell command) as suggested here - log out and log in again (without rebooting in between); based on this post
Since cleaning the session cache is also suggested here, I suppose the problem may have been triggered by a repository update of XFCE.
Solution 3:
This command worked for me:
xfdesktop --replace