Xfce broken completely and reinstall does not help...

Dear All,
I installed Xfce and it was working just fine until I got a strange error with unmounting a usb stick. After that the Xfce panel somehow disappeared after reboot. I don't remember exactly what I did, but now it is completely broken - I see only the "tips and tricks" window after login. No panel, no wallpaper - just nothing.
I removed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies completely and wiped all relevant config files, which I managed to find. Then I installed xfce again and it does not help!
Many thanks in advance for any help!
Last edited by yesint (2009-12-02 14:30:45)

Try deleting anything related to xfce in your home directory and start xfce again, also do not save the session, I have found that saving the session can cause problems like this.

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