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hobs0n

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From: Muppsala, Schweden

Registered: 2023-11-05

Posts: 8

ALT+tab doesnt work anymore plus various other weirdness just started

Hello dear XFCE peeps!

Ive been running XFCE on my old MacBook for a couple of months. I havent really gotten XFCE to work quite as good as I would like. For example, only 1 "mouse button" working on the touchpad, hard to find a fitting font/general size, general worse battery time.

This evening it started acting all weird:
ALT-tab have stopped working
I have to close Note or Terminal or any programs (I think)  to type outside them for example since alt-tab or using the touchpad/mouse doesnt work
The panel is gone, cant get it to start which means the ⌘ command key is the only way I can access anything. Or minimizing or closing programs
I cant move the Firefox window

I have tried restarting the laptop without saving the session.

Im running:

Xfce     4.18
GTK     3.24.41
kernel      6.5.13-7

EDIT: added more problems

Last edited by hobs0n (2024-04-20 10:03:05)

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I like to play with my daughter and her friends, spank pandas and climb in trees

Macbook Pro 2012, Intel crap, 8GB RAM, Manjaro and XFCE

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 528

Re: ALT+tab doesnt work anymore plus various other weirdness just started

Most of your issues sound like hardware/driver problems. I would check on the Manjaro forum. For the panel, sheck under settings>>panel to see if "hide panel" is checked.

I tried to run Manjaro a while back but ultimately abandon it. I found it way too buggy. Services would fail to start. Glitchy issues kept popping up. I just got tired of trying to fix it.

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: ALT+tab doesnt work anymore plus various other weirdness just started

ALT-tab have stopped working

I cant move the Firefox window

Sounds like xfwm4 has crashed or is not running. Try running:

xfwm4

Log files would also help identify the issues.

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hobs0n

Member

From: Muppsala, Schweden

Registered: 2023-11-05

Posts: 8

Re: ALT+tab doesnt work anymore plus various other weirdness just started

Thanks for helping but I tried installing a fresh Manjaro i3 instead... Which didn't work so now I have no computer what soever

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I like to play with my daughter and her friends, spank pandas and climb in trees

Macbook Pro 2012, Intel crap, 8GB RAM, Manjaro and XFCE