XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

Geoffrey Leach geoff at hughes.net
Tue Aug 21 21:16:00 UTC 2012


On 08/21/2012 09:46:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Here's a solution to the problem of restarting xfwm4 without a 
keyboard. Put the command in a launcher. I haven't confirmed this yet, 
but as there is no keyboard involved, it should work.


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