[xubuntu-users] How to get rid of do-hicky on desktop

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:03:16 -0400
Fred Roller <fredroller66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/01/2014 12:55 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> [snip]
> > Right clicking did nothing but redraw the thing. I looked in bunches
> > of config files and scripts, and some .desktop files, but could find
> > nothing to influence it. Interestingly, left clicking its components
> > does nothing. It seems to be harmless, just annoying. In Obconf, I
> > moved the position of the "dock", but no change to this thing.
> Steve, I am suspecting an artifact.  Can you create a new user and
> see if it appears with the new user? This would tell me if it is your
> user config or system.  I am assuming this is not a dual boot but
> rather just a session preference between xfce and openbox for desktop
> choice.  Is this correct?
> 

Hi Fred,

Outstanding diagnostic test! Given what I do for a living, I should
have thought of that myself. It turned out that after I made the user
with adduser from a root login, the new user had the same thing. So now
we know it's not something exclusive to user slitt. Thank you very much.

SteveT

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