[SOLVED] Lost windows manager

benke · 2011-03-20 14:36:49

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.

Last edited by benke (2011-03-21 10:10:52)

SantaFe · 2011-03-20 15:57:45

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.

Last edited by SantaFe (2011-03-20 15:58:34)

benke · 2011-03-21 09:55:12

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

benke · 2011-03-21 10:05:43

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.

SantaFe · 2011-03-21 13:24:56

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

Last edited by SantaFe (2011-03-21 13:25:49)

muemarco · 2011-08-04 18:56:43

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

s0ulslack · 2011-08-05 03:01:03

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.

Alp · 2012-09-12 21:27:24

Thank you, deleting my session cache solved the problem.

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