On 08/21/2012 09:46:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com wrote:
Greetings,
Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality
stopped.
No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-
Tab.
Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window disappeared. There are a few other similar abnormalities.
I thought that this may have been due to some sort of a software update; but I haven't done any in the last few days.
I know that there is an oddity/bug in XFCE that the keyboard stops functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long.
But this seems to be something very differt.
If anyone has experienced this problem and resolved it, please
share
your solution.
Otherwise, it's into the Gnome 3 world.
Sounds like (as several other folks have mentioned) xfwm4 died.
If you can get to a terminal, do:
xfwm4 --replace &
If you cannot, you can try clearing your session out and logging in again:
rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-sessions*
Note that this will clear out things like what applications you had running, etc.
Here's a solution to the problem of restarting xfwm4 without a keyboard. Put the command in a launcher. I haven't confirmed this yet, but as there is no keyboard involved, it should work.