On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:50 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Occasionally when I leave an application > it leaves a "mess" - jumbled content - > in the desktop where it was running. > > This doesn't really matter, as when I run an application > which opens a window in that desktop > it simply covers the mess. You mean something painted garbage on the root window? Or some non-functional window was left lying around? In the latter case, you can use 'xkill' to destroy it. > Nevertheless, is there any way of "cleaning" a desktop, > apart from re-booting? > (I'm not sure if re-starting X does the job.) I'd be extremely surprised if restarting X didn't do it. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
