XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Tue Aug 21 16:52:05 UTC 2012


On 08/21/2012 09:46 AM, Kevin Fenzi uttered this comment:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT)
> Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped.
>>
>> No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab.
>> Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window
>> disappeared. There are a few other similar abnormalities.
>>
>> I thought that this may have been due to some sort of a software
>> update; but I haven't done any in the last few days.
>>
>> I know that there is an oddity/bug  in XFCE that the keyboard stops
>> functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long.
>>
>> But this seems to be something very differt.
>>
>> If anyone has experienced this problem and resolved it, please share
>> your solution.
>>
>> Otherwise, it's into the Gnome 3 world.
>
> Sounds like (as several other folks have mentioned) xfwm4 died.
>
> If you can get to a terminal, do:
>
> xfwm4 --replace &
>
> If you cannot, you can try clearing your session out and logging in
> again:
>
> rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-sessions*
>
> Note that this will clear out things like what applications you had
> running, etc.

You might note that he may need to use something like CTRL+ALT+F2 to get
to a text console to do that deletion.
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