Lubuntu: Desktop manager is not active.

[khaktus]

Fresh install of Lubuntu 17.10.

0. Before the issue occured:

- PCManFM had no option to set default folder on launching (I do NOT want to use /home/userXY), but allowed me to set folder where home icon takes me (Edit > Preferences > Use path for "Home Folder" button > Custom > /media/Data). Unfortunately this works only clicking on that button, it is not a folder where I get when I launch PCManFm from launchpad.

- I have created an alias in my ~/.bashrc

alias pcmanfm='pcmanfm /media/Data'

1. After reboot:

- Desktop Wallpaper disappeared. When I tried to do Start > Preferences > Desktop Preferences, it just tells me: "Desktop manager is not active." - and that's it. No access to those settings anymore.

2. Other symptoms:

Start > Preferences > Default Applications for LXSession > Core Applications > Desktop Manager ... says "filemanager" What is that supposed to be?

In file: ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf

file_manager/command=pcmanfm /media/Data
file_manager/session=lubuntu
file_manager/extras=
desktop_manager/command=filemanager

Just out of curiosity, isn't the last line missing "_" in file_manager?

In file: /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf

file_manager/command=pcmanfm
file_manager/session=lubuntu
file_manager/extras=

desktop_manager/command=filemanager

I wonder if I did mess the setting with trying to do basic customization of file manager, or is there a bug?

Currently I cannot adjust my desktop.

[khaktus (khaktus)]

Even after purge/reinstall of PCManFM and related desktop packages, resetting the values in config files to default, the issue still persists. Same error:

"Desktop manager is not active."

Any idea please?

[Ivelin Petrov (pcdjivo)]

Desktop Manager Not Active !
Same story: Lubuntu 18.04 (same problem)! Desktop Manager Not Active , Everything on the desktop disappears! Only LogOFF fixes things.

~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf

file_manager/command=pcmanfm
file_manager/session=lubuntu
file_manager/extras=
desktop_manager/command=filemanager
desktop_manager/wallpaper=

Any idea please?

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) and all flavors reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to New.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pcmanfm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]