Broken image of my desktop after logging in

[cod3r]

I’m running 21.2.1 (XFCE). Whenever I log in, Manjaro shows a sort of broken snapshot of my desktop as it looked like when I last logged out.

So, say if I had Mousepad open with a text file before I logged out, it shows an image of that.

By “broken” I mean that there are random pixelations. Then my default desktop shows up normally after a few seconds… I do not know why this is happening but this leads to some security issues.

I wonder why this is happening and hope someone could share a fix so that my bare default desktop just shows up.

[Keruskerfuerst]

Can you post a image of the broken desktop ?

[ishaan2479]

Remove ~/.cache/sessions and run xfdesktop --replace reboot

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[cod3r]

Edited the original post. See image there.

[cod3r]

Do you mean I should delete the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions folder or the entire sessions folder itself?

[ishaan2479]

You can delete the whole folder. It will regenerate after next boot.

[Keruskerfuerst]

Can you start the Manjaro USB stick and see what desktop is displayed ?