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juza

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Registered: 2015-02-03

Posts: 4

[Solved] Xfwm4 (sometimes) crashes on startup

Often when Xfce is starting xfwm crashes.
I can see my desktop with the icons. Panel is hidden. When any window appears (e.g. Terminal is autostarting) it doesn't have decorations.

This is happening from 4.11.x, so that's a few months already. A simple "fix" is to launch xfwm4 by clicking on a launcher that I have on the desktop. I could of course recreate a new xfce profile but I would rather not do that.

journalctl -b | grep xfwm
shows me only

Jun 12 17:35:30 localhost.localdomain org.xfce.FileManager[1804]: (xfwm4:2707): xfwm4-WARNING **: Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
Jun 12 17:35:30 localhost.localdomain org.xfce.FileManager[1804]: (xfwm4:2707): xfwm4-WARNING **: Error waiting on vblank with DRI: Invalid argument
Jun 12 17:35:40 localhost.localdomain org.xfce.FileManager[1804]: xfwm4-Message: Using vertical blank of secondary DRI output

Could you kindly point me to some methods of debugging xfwm4 or the Xfce starting process?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using Fedora 22 now. This behavior started on 21.

I'm using Xfce for over 10 years now and I'm not going to stop

juza

Member

Registered: 2015-02-03

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Xfwm4 (sometimes) crashes on startup

In the end I've recreated my xfce configuration from scratch. It would be impossible to find the specific config (or a combination of options) that lead to xfwm crashing.