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