If you can explain what you started from, and what you did, folks likely can offer more help in resolving your issue. If this is a Bookworm system, did you muck about with Wayland, when you went on your XFCE adventure?
I suspect that in installing/removing XFCE you broke something or are missing something, such that reinstalling raspberryps-ui-mods alone did not resolve the issue.
The simplest (fastest) answer may be to do a fresh/clean install on another SD card, and then copy your data over. Probably not what you want to hear, but it is very difficult to trouble shoot a system blindly, without a very clear picture of how the system got into the state it is in.
Also not particularly useful for this case, but making a copy once you have a sane OS, so that you have a known good backup OS install, before you go experimenting is an excellent time investment. SD cards are cheap, and the SD copier is super simple to use. Beyond getting back to a functional system with the swap of a SD card, you have a reference point to go diff'ing against.
I suspect that in installing/removing XFCE you broke something or are missing something, such that reinstalling raspberryps-ui-mods alone did not resolve the issue.
The simplest (fastest) answer may be to do a fresh/clean install on another SD card, and then copy your data over. Probably not what you want to hear, but it is very difficult to trouble shoot a system blindly, without a very clear picture of how the system got into the state it is in.
Also not particularly useful for this case, but making a copy once you have a sane OS, so that you have a known good backup OS install, before you go experimenting is an excellent time investment. SD cards are cheap, and the SD copier is super simple to use. Beyond getting back to a functional system with the swap of a SD card, you have a reference point to go diff'ing against.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:57 pm