On lun., 2012-01-09 at 17:02 -0600, M Yudkowsky wrote: > I've just experienced the same problem, to the extent that I can't even > use the xfce window system at all:
Yeah, without wm the desktop is a bit useless. But it doesn't look at all like the same issue. > > * "pgrep xfwm4" finds no process. From my eyeball of the startup > process, xfwm4 starts up and then fails; I've yet to find the log that > shows the failure. Try in ~/.xsession-errors? > > * None of the windows can be focused on with the mouse; the windows > lack proper decorations (handles, close boxes); I've got only one > workspace instead of eight, and so and and so forth. Yeah, definitely the sign of a missing window manager. > > * "xfwm4 --display=:0.0, from the root console (not from within the > windowing system), does not seem to restart the manager. I get an error > message instead, "xfwm4:27742 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > :0.0", which I interpret to mean that I don't know what I'm doing. :) Maybe try with: DISPLAY=:0 xfwm4 --daemon but cleaning the session cache a you did works too. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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