[Resolved] Serious issue

schnappi · 2018-09-26 21:22:56

Running Arch. Update almost daily. When turned on computer today after logging in as user the wallpaper was blank, can not right click, minimize or maximize windows (visual buttons completely missing), and the taskbar icons look strange (especially network manager icon).

On a positive note everything still works. Minus minimize or ability to close anything though...

Everything had been running great for about a year updating daily. Not sure if Arch forum would have been better choice. Came here because nothing wrong until login as a user. The user login screen displays wallpaper. The issue really only starts once XFCE starts.

Hopefully can solve this. Assuming the fix is not too bad still glad switched from Windows. Just hoping it doesn’t become an issue where no one knows what happened.

Last edited by schnappi (2018-10-27 18:28:32)

MountainDewManiac · 2018-09-26 21:34:19

Description seems like your window manager crashed. Try running xfwm from a terminal window to see if things change.

Regards,
MDM

mint4all · 2018-09-26 22:30:20

Greetings!

Just to be clear -- I am not familiar with your Arch distro (our moderator, ToZ, is quite the expert on that), but have dealt with a number of XFCE quirks myself ... One of the "gotcha"s is xfce's feature of "saving" a session upon logout. Though quite useful at times (mostly for static apps, ie. xfce-terminal), it can create havoc when a system update conflicts with apps that were left "open" upon a logout, screen lock, susppend, or hibernate.

A simple way to remove THAT potential source of problems: delete any "saved" session file(s) left behind in your system's ~/.config/.sessions folder. In addition, there are 2 other places where the option to have xfce save your session must be turned off; but let's tackle this one step at a time ...

Aside from that, do you backup your system with something like "timeshift", or an equivalent, that would enable you to roll back any unwanted updates?

Good luck, M4A

schnappi · 2018-09-27 01:06:37

Running xfwm4 resolved.

What can be done, short of putting xfwm4 in .profile or as an Xfce startup command to ensure the windows manager starts correctly?

mint4all · 2018-09-27 02:06:18

schnappi wrote:

Running xfwm4 resolved.
What can be done, short of putting xfwm4 in .profile or as an Xfce startup command to ensure the windows manager starts correctly?

Afaik -- unless this got messed up -- your window manager SHOULD auto-start at login time. This is controlled via xfce's settings manager, as you can see ...
Since your system appears to NOT autostart it, somehow your system-settings got messed up, imho.

Could you check this out? And if my take is correct, re-activate THAT autostart control? Thanks.

schnappi · 2018-10-27 18:28:00

The forum going down resulted to delayed response. Thank you for help. Running "xfwm4" resolved. Next time restarted the problem did not occur again. However, the problem was occurring after restarts until ran "xfwm4."

ozjd · 2018-10-27 21:53:30

schnappi wrote:

The forum going down resulted to delayed response. Thank you for help. Running "xfwm4" resolved. Next time restarted the problem did not occur again. However, the problem was occurring after restarts until ran "xfwm4."

That sounds like a sessions issue. In Settings - Session and Startup - Sessions use the clear saved sessions option. Then check that save session isn't selected when you log out.

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