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?
Evidently the problem occurs (metacity substituted for xfwm4) when a gnome user configures a gnome session. I am not sure what configuration is needed, In my case I added icons to the upper panel, for example. When I logged in to Xfce it was screwed up.
Fixing it involved running: xfwm4 --replace &
Another user on my system that had not configured Gnome in any way did not have the problem.