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Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (Alp) — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:27:24 +0000

Thank you, deleting my session cache solved the problem.

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (s0ulslack) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:01:03 +0000

Just a note, you don't need to delete your Sessions. That makes for a huge pain in the butt for some, just restart xfwm4 (press ALT+F2, enter xfwm4 and click Ok) and save your Session on logout.

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (muemarco) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:56:43 +0000

I had the same problem and deleting ~/.cache/sessions solved it all. Thanks benke

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (SantaFe) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:24:56 +0000

Sorry that what I posted didn't work for you, but glad you fixed it though. Gotta remember that trick.

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (benke) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:05:43 +0000

It's related to this bug:

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7324

and is described here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114235

I deleted ~/.cache/sessions and all works now.

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (benke) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:55:12 +0000

It didn't helped. I even moved out ~/.config/xfce4 directory and reinstalled package but no improvements.

Re: [SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (SantaFe) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:57:45 +0000

Weird. I had something like that happen to me once, same symptoms after I had edited my .gtkrc-2.0 file in the home directory and rebooted. Perhaps something grunged that file for some reason.

Have you checked to see if your .gtkrc-2.0 file is correct, if you have one? Maybe rename it & reboot to see if it comes back.

Like I said, not sure if it IS the same thing or not, but it seemed to work for me.

[SOLVED] Lost windows manager

dummy@example.com (benke) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:36:49 +0000

After today reboot I somehow left without window manager. I see windows but they don't have titlebar and borders. I can start Terminal but I can't type anything. Also, pager disappeared. It's kinda like described here: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5455. If I go Settings -> Window Manager, nothing happens but in slim.log I can see "These settings cannot work with your current window manager (unknown)".

I am using latest Arch Linux and XFCE 4.8.0. I use Slim to login and in ~/.xinitrc have line

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

It worked for few past months without problems.