Weird behavior of Desktop Env

[JD]

On 05/10/2012 08:05 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 19:21 -0700, JD wrote:
>> On FC16, with all latest updates.
>> My session is XFCE4.
>>
>> Until a couple of days ago, XFCE was working just fine.
>> Suddenly, without any provocation from me, (nor new packages
>> installed, no packages deleted) - I am getting 2 different sets of
>> panels.
>> One set of panels is that of Gnome - on top is the launch bar,
>> and on bottom is the task switcher bar.
>>
>> I also have the xfce4 panels, which are on right (launch bar) and
>> on left, task switcher bar.
>>
>> How can I stop this insanity?
>>
>> I am starting to get very paranoid about F16 that it may have been
>> shipped fully equipped with a trojan.
>>
>> This, in addition to what I have been seeking help for - no audio
>> for media players. Only Firefox can play online YT videos and
>> audio works then.
>>
>> I am indeed on the verge of completely dumping FC16. It has
>> been a very frustrating experience.
> replace metacity by xfwm4 to fix xfce
> I suspect xfwm4 is not running on your machine.
>
$ ps -ef | grep wm
jd        3948     1  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 xfwm4

$ ps -ef | grep -i metacity
jd        4449  4172  0 16:06 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i metacity
$

Or is metacity a config option somewhere?