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?
> 
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.

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