XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

[Mark LaPierre]

On 08/21/2012 05:16 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 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.

Except that a launcher only works if the WM is running.

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