[Solved] XFCE Desktop update...

Question

Hello all agian.
I am using conky in XFCE and play my music collections with mpd now. In conky I added mpd status including song name and so on.
My problem is, when I play a song it shows the artist/title on the screen. If a song's title is shorter then the previous song conky update that text but on the desktop there's still text left from the old song.
For example:
Song 1:
MPD: [1.28/3.24] Artist - A very long song title for this song
Song 2
MPD: [0.08/2.12] Artist 2 - A short title ong title for this song
The part in italics is NOT removed as I switch song.
Can I make either conky or xfwm to update the desktop when I switch song?
(EDIT: I've read some about the FAM daemon that is used by several desktop env. Can it be the one I miss as desktop is not updating? Do XFCE make use of it?)
(EDIT 2: I searched and found http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31737, tried it, but nono, not updating, fam is running and so on..)
(EDIT 3: Case closed. Installing FAM, get that daemon running, restart of xfce solved it it seems, Mental note #2345: Check ALL possible solutions before spamming a forum..)
Here's the conkyrc(I use 2, this one is on the bottom of screen):
START conkyrc ------------------------------------------------------
# conky configuration
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
# Print everything to console?
# out_to_console no
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2.0
# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
#own_window_type desktop
#own_window_hints below
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 280 5
# maximum_width 215
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline yes
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0
# border margins
border_margin 1
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color A29F84
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
# alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 1
gap_y 1
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2
# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2
# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer yes
TEXT
${color #596380} MPD:${color } [${mpd_elapsed}/${mpd_length}] ${mpd_smart}
END conkyrc -----------------------
Last edited by akejo (2007-05-15 14:53:42)

Answer 1

[disclaimer] I do not use Xfce, but I know several people who do and have reported similar problems [/disclaimer]
Can you log in at another console (ctrl-alt-f2)? If you can, try deleting these two folders entirely:
~/.cache/sessions/
~/.config/xfce4/
and then reboot. If that does not help, try reinstalling Xfce.
There is more information in the wiki here.
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-06-18 00:54:08)