One of the wallpapers has XFCE on it, but I didnât change my desktop environment. Also of note, when I open the terminal it doesnât look the same as it used to. Instead of the dark purple window itâs a black window with white text and the windowâs icon is a red âXâ with a dark blue âTâ on it.
This is a headless machine and I connect to it through remote-desktop.
If I go through the applications menu (manually clicking, the super key does nothing and my keyboard does not have a âFnâ key) and go to settings I get the window on the left. Changing the settings in this window does nothing. Right clicking the desktop and clicking âdesktop settingsâ I get the window on the right. This window correctly changes the wallpaper.
When I open the home folder I get Thunar.
My guess is there are two desktop environments competing or something right now? How can I fix this?
Also, weirdly, if I click my name in the upper right I can âlock screenâ and âlog outâŠâ but I canât âswitch user,â âsuspend,â or âshut down.â
Thank you in advance for any help.
How are you using it remotely? VNC?
Perhaps the server config started defaulting to XFCE. Maybe what happened is entire XFCE DE got marked as a dependency, installed during update, and then when some config defaulting to XFCE thanks to this became valid, you ended up here.
If itâs VNC, what do you have in ~/.vnc/xstartup
? Maybe a line like xfce4-session
?
Itâs using RDP. Iâm going to check out how RDP is configured on the machine and see if I can set it up âfreshâ again. I think I went with RDP instead of VNC because I was connecting to it with a windows machine in the past and using RDP meant I could use the native windows RDP client.
Now that my primary machine is running Pop!_OS, I can check out whichever protocol has the better connection and re-set thing up with it.