Re: lightdm/xfce4, lost my window manager and my panels and some session state

2016-01-31 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/28/2016 09:59 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: I keep xfce4-panel in startup and sessions, auto-start, just to make sure it always runs. For reasons unknown, it will sometimes fail to start. Running Sid and with last update the greeter fails to respond to the mouse or keyboard (both USB). St

Re: lightdm/xfce4, lost my window manager and my panels and some session state

2016-01-28 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:47:50 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: >Several days back, after a late night session when I was asleep at the >keyboard by the time I logged at, xfwm4 quit starting up after logging >in from lightdm (which is my default dm). > >There we

lightdm/xfce4, lost my window manager and my panels and some session state

2016-01-28 Thread Joel Rees
Several days back, after a late night session when I was asleep at the keyboard by the time I logged at, xfwm4 quit starting up after logging in from lightdm (which is my default dm). There were no title bars and no trim. I could right-click on the desktop and get the applications menu and start a

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 11. 2009 18:42:14 je John Jason Jordan napisal(a): I see you're reinstalling anyway. Just for the record: have you tried creating another user and logging is as that user? Just to see if it's just your user account that's broken, or is the entire system borked ... -- Regards and Good

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:42:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: [snip recap of troubles..] > > Because I have not yet been able to figure out how to make metacity and > gnome-panel start automatically on booting as they are supposed to, > plus the additional issues recently discovered, I have

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:36:08 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." dijo: > In <20091107124017.gw11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >John Jason Jordan: > >> I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. > > > >Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. Y

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091107124017.gw11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >John Jason Jordan: >> I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. > >Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. You shouldn't do >that as a desktop user with no intention to dig into interna

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Jason Jordan: > > I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. You shouldn't do that as a desktop user with no intention to dig into internals and write bug reports. J. -- I wish I had been aware enough to enjoy m

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Jason Jordan: > > [snip bluetooth mouse problems] Sorry, cannot comment on that. > Unfortunately, the entire Gnome panel is gone. Clicking on where things > are supposed to be in the panel does nothing. Is the panel gone or is it empty? > Windows have no title bar > or icons in the corner

Lost my window manager

2009-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
Debian testing amd64, fresh install, idiot newbie user four days old. I had everything pretty much working and configured except for my bluetooth mouse. Finally I succeeded in getting it working, although I cannot tell you how. I had installed Blueman, but it couldn't get the mouse paired either.

Re: help, I lost my window-manager

2001-08-10 Thread jdls
Hi, I was too anxious...just letting the dist-upgrade finish solved the problem...thanks

Re: help, I lost my window manager

2001-08-10 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:53:52AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello, | | I recently did a dist-upgrade now my user's .xinitrc file is not | being read..so no xterm, no window-manager, nothing at all... | starting X bare and looking at the various log files does not tell | me anything... Tr

help, I lost my window manager

2001-08-10 Thread jdls
Hello, I recently did a dist-upgrade now my user's .xinitrc file is not being read..so no xterm, no window-manager, nothing at all... starting X bare and looking at the various log files does not tell me anything... Any help would be appreciated...