With the update in Rawhide to 4.10 from 4.8 my desktop was broken. Parts of the 'starters' in Settings Manager. Most notably the "Desktop" starter. So I can not set the options there and the options that were set apparently have 'disappeared' too. It may be related but a 'mouse click' on the desktop no longer puts up a drop-down menu and my 'desktop icons' are no longer there.
What package is missing or damaged?
On Mon, 14 May 2012 09:24:43 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
With the update in Rawhide to 4.10 from 4.8 my desktop was broken. Parts of the 'starters' in Settings Manager. Most notably the "Desktop" starter. So I can not set the options there and the options that were set apparently have 'disappeared' too. It may be related but a 'mouse click' on the desktop no longer puts up a drop-down menu and my 'desktop icons' are no longer there.
What package is missing or damaged?
Sounds like xfwm4 might not be running?
If you can get to a terminal, run 'xfwm4 --replace &'
If not, you can remove your session file and login again and it should start xfwm4.
kevin
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On 5/14/2012 10:07 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2012 09:24:43 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
With the update in Rawhide to 4.10 from 4.8 my desktop was broken. Parts of the 'starters' in Settings Manager. Most notably the "Desktop" starter. So I can not set the options there and the options that were set apparently have 'disappeared' too. It may be related but a 'mouse click' on the desktop no longer puts up a drop-down menu and my 'desktop icons' are no longer there.
What package is missing or damaged?
Sounds like xfwm4 might not be running?
If you can get to a terminal, run 'xfwm4 --replace &'
If not, you can remove your session file and login again and it should start xfwm4.
No joy with 'xfwm4 --replace &' . It does show as 'running' in TOP.
Several of the missing 'buttons', Screensaver for example, returned but I still do not have a Desktop 'button'.
/.config/xfce4-sesions is an empty folder /.config/xfcd4/desktop contains the icons.screen0 files. There are 8 with different names.
Exactly where might this 'sessions file' be located and what is it's true name?
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David
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:31:13 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
No joy with 'xfwm4 --replace &' . It does show as 'running' in TOP.
Several of the missing 'buttons', Screensaver for example, returned but I still do not have a Desktop 'button'.
/.config/xfce4-sesions is an empty folder /.config/xfcd4/desktop contains the icons.screen0 files. There are 8 with different names.
Exactly where might this 'sessions file' be located and what is it's true name?
look in:
~/.cache/sessions/
Should be:
xfce4-session-YOURHOSTNAME:0 (saved session) and xfwm4-HASH.state (your xfwm4 window settings/etc)
kevin
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On 5/16/2012 12:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:31:13 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
No joy with 'xfwm4 --replace &' . It does show as 'running' in TOP.
Several of the missing 'buttons', Screensaver for example, returned but I still do not have a Desktop 'button'.
/.config/xfce4-sesions is an empty folder /.config/xfcd4/desktop contains the icons.screen0 files. There are 8 with different names.
Exactly where might this 'sessions file' be located and what is it's true name?
look in:
~/.cache/sessions/
Should be:
xfce4-session-YOURHOSTNAME:0 (saved session) and xfwm4-HASH.state (your xfwm4 window settings/etc)
Thank you. That appears to have solved this.
Is there anything, that you can explain to a simple user, that caused this? Something that I might have done incorrectly. I ask because I can not think of anything that I have done out of the ordinary.
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David
On Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26:21 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. That appears to have solved this.
Is there anything, that you can explain to a simple user, that caused this? Something that I might have done incorrectly. I ask because I can not think of anything that I have done out of the ordinary.
Possibly it's this upstream bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5379
basically when you have several applications running that pop up "do you want to save what you are working on" dialogs, xfwm4 doesn't properly deal with them before quitting. So, it dies and doesn't have itself set to start in the next session.
There was some work to fix this in 4.10, but not sure it's completely solved. ;(
kevin
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On 5/17/2012 12:50 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26:21 -0400 David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. That appears to have solved this.
Is there anything, that you can explain to a simple user, that caused this? Something that I might have done incorrectly. I ask because I can not think of anything that I have done out of the ordinary.
Possibly it's this upstream bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5379
basically when you have several applications running that pop up "do you want to save what you are working on" dialogs, xfwm4 doesn't properly deal with them before quitting. So, it dies and doesn't have itself set to start in the next session.
There was some work to fix this in 4.10, but not sure it's completely solved. ;(
kevin
That must be some bug to be that old and still unresolved. :-)
I do recall something such as this and it was around the time od the problem.
Thanks again. Something to add to the 'notes'.
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