Gnome and Xfce don't play well together

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 17:16 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:19 -0600
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at 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?
> 
> > 1. 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... 
> 
> > 2. Gnome display image bleeds into Xfce.
> 
> display image? Not sure what you mean here... 
> 
> > 3. Evolution after awhile has the same problem as Firefox.
> > 4. 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? 
> 
> > 5. 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?
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