Thanks and one more XFCE question - USB devices, was Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

[Max Pyziur]

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT)
> Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:

[...]

>> 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.
>
> Hope that helps.

Much thanks for this and similar replies. It looks as though this is the
course to take in order to correct this issue.

I have two machines where I have been using the Xfce desktop, a Dell
laptop (Inspiron 600m) and a home-built 64-bit dual-core.

When I insert a USB flash drive on the 64-bit machine, an icon shows up on
the desktop. Right-clicking on the icon shows a menu that allows me to
mount the drive.

On the i386 laptop, no icons appear when a USB flash drive is inserted. A
file browser window is opened; then clicking on the USB drive gets the
drive mounted.

Is there some place in the settings to make the behavior of the i386 more
like that of the x64?

> kevin
> --

Much thanks.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com