diff -ur xfdesktop-4.10.3.org/common/xfdesktop-common.c xfdesktop-4.10.3/common/xfdesktop-common.c

--- xfdesktop-4.10.3.org/common/xfdesktop-common.c	2014-11-16 07:20:57.000000000 +0100

+++ xfdesktop-4.10.3/common/xfdesktop-common.c	2014-12-11 08:58:23.511865532 +0100

@@ -102,26 +102,38 @@

     items = 0;

     files = g_strsplit(contents, "\n", -1);

+    g_free(contents); /* not needed anymore */

+

     /* Since the first line is the file identifier, we need to skip it.

      * Additionally, we want to skip blank lines. */

-    for(i = 1; files[i] != NULL; i++) {

-        if(g_strcmp0(files[i], "") != 0) {

-            g_free(files[items]);

-            files[items] = g_strdup(files[i]);

-            DBG("files[items] %s", files[items]);

-            items++;

+

+     /* a file with just the header will have only one line */

+

+    if(files[0] != NULL)

+    {

+        g_free(files[0]);   /* that's the only non-empty line we need to remove */

+        files[0] = NULL;

+        for(i = 1; files[i] != NULL; i++) {

+            if(g_strcmp0(files[i], "") != 0) {

+                files[items]=files[i];  /* move the string to the current item slot */

+

+                items++;

+            } else { 

+                g_free(files[i]);   /* free the irrelevant empty string */

+            }

         }

+        files[items] = NULL; /* set the sentinel */

+

+        /* resize */

+        

+        files = g_realloc(files, sizeof(gchar *) * (items+1));

     }

-    files[items+1] = NULL;

-    files = g_realloc(files, sizeof(gchar *) * (items+1));

     DBG("items %d", items);

     if(n_items)

         *n_items = items;

-    g_free(contents);

-

     return files;

 }