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Re: How to ask a Question

dummy@example.com (secipolla) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:30:57 +0000

The first issue you had because of the power failure was a corrupted session. You could have solved it with
rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions

This doesn't happen to everyone but it seems it happens to people that use gedit (and maybe the mate equivalent) in Xfce.
Actually since you had lost xfwm4 you probably should run
xfwm4 --replace
I guess.

Re: How to ask a Question

dummy@example.com (Warwick F) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:16:43 +0000

Had a happy install of Xfce4 on Mint13 Maya when a power failure has resulted in the every window loosing the min-max-close buttons and the Windows Manager & Windows Manager Tweaks icons being unresponsive. I tried reinstalling some Xfce windows management bits I guessed at in Synaptic Package Manager to know affect. I think I then tried to add KDE windows manager via Synaptic and now when I restart normally it starts into just a black screen with mouse pointer and nothing else. [I have since read I should have earlier tried xfwm4 --sm-client-disable but we are passed that working now]. What next?

How to ask a Question

dummy@example.com (s0ulslack) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:04:33 +0000

Before you ask a question, please make sure you've searched the Forum. You can also try the Wiki, it contains a great FAQ, Tips & Tricks as well as How To's.

Things to include in you post:

Xfce Version
Your Distribution and Version
If you've problems starting an application then run the app from a terminal and post all errors
Any other information that you think may be useful (its better to have too much info than not enough)

If you question is answered please put "[solved]" in front of the title, you do this by editing you first post and modifying the subject line.

Thanks and enjoy the Forums!