On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 17:16 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:19 -0600 Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net wrote:
This happened in F15 and I thought I was just ignorant. Now that it has happened again in F16 I realize it is a software problem. When Gnome is configured for a user and then the user tries to use Xfce they find that the Xfce is corrupted in various ways. Namely:
What do you mean by 'gnome is configured for a user' ? They logged in with gnome? something else?
- when Firefox is run the top menu choices can not be used. You click
on Edit for example and you see the Edit menu, When you move the cursor down the menu and the menu disappears.
Sounds like a window manager focus issue...
- Gnome display image bleeds into Xfce.
display image? Not sure what you mean here...
- Evolution after awhile has the same problem as Firefox.
- Running the Software Update program causes the update window to be
so large that you can't see the options like "Install" at the bottom of the window,
Whats your screen resolution?
- You can't set up multiple workspaces.
etc., etc and so forth.
What happens when you try and do so?
The workwspaces are not created.
In F15 the corruptions were slightly different. Foe example the menu you got when you clicked on the Desktop was the Gnome menu not the Xfce menu. Other strange things happened like you get a view of the home directory immediately when you log in to Xfce,
It would be interesting to hear whether others have seen similar effects.
It sounds like somehow you have had metacity take over for xfwm4. Can you open up a terminal and run a 'ps aux' and see which window manager is running?
xfwm4 --replace &
and then logging out and back on to save the session with xfwm4 running might help?
kevin
My display is: 1280x1024
Well I can answer the other questions but : xfwm4 --replace & seems to be the answer to my problems. So far all my complaints have gone away. Thanks. Now how did metacity take over for xfwm4?