Mo more titlebar in xfce windows

[frapelli]

I reinstalled all XFCE applications (fromLXDE) and purged and reinstalled xfwm4, with no luck. LXDEand KDE work properly.

Help please.

[GermanTux]

Can you post a screenshot, so we can see exactly what you are experiencing?

Also, the fact that you have LXDE and KDE on the same box could give you significant issues. 

[djohnston]

Open Synaptic, mark task-xfce for installation and install it. There may be packages you missed.

[frapelli]

have you added xfce4 to your synaptic repository sections???

if not add it ... click reload ... mark all upgrades ... and apply

I did, still missing

Open Synaptic, mark task-xfce for installation and install it. There may be packages you missed.

Done. No change

Is there a way to purge XFCE without uninstalling everything, and then reinstall it?

[parnote]

frapelli,

What video card/driver are you using?

parnote

[frapelli]

frapelli,

What video card/driver are you using?

parnote

Code:

06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 836d
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24
        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fe980000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

[parnote]

frapelli,

I sounds like you are being bitten by Compiz-Fusion. I know it may not make much sense (it didn't to me either, when something similar happened to me). Install Compiz-Fusion, then use the system tray app for Compiz-Fusion to return the window manager to xfwm.

It's worth a shot.

parnote

[frapelli]

Thanks.

As far as Compiz is active, everything is oK, also, without activating Compiz, I can reload window manager (Xfwm4) via Fusion Icon, and Xfwm4 titlebar appears.

Without Compiz at each login titlebar disappears again.

I can live with this, nevertheless I would like to understand why.

[Ron Ritzman]

Thanks.

As far as Compiz is active, everything is oK, also, without activating Compiz, I can reload window manager (Xfwm4) via Fusion Icon, and Xfwm4 titlebar appears.

Without Compiz at each login titlebar disappears again.

I can live with this, nevertheless I would like to understand why.

Ditto here, no window borders,
screenshot, until I fire up the compiz-fusion icon. Also, before I start the CFI, the mouse pointer is spinning as if it's trying to start something. If I were to guess, I would say that for some reason xfce can't find Xfwm4 but the compiz-fusion icon can. Of course I could be completely wrong.

[Ron Ritzman]

Thanks.

As far as Compiz is active, everything is oK, also, without activating Compiz, I can reload window manager (Xfwm4) via Fusion Icon, and Xfwm4 titlebar appears.

Without Compiz at each login titlebar disappears again.

I can live with this, nevertheless I would like to understand why.

Ditto here, no window borders,
screenshot, until I fire up the compiz-fusion icon. Also, before I start the CFI, the mouse pointer is spinning as if it's trying to start something. If I were to guess, I would say that for some reason xfce can't find Xfwm4 but the compiz-fusion icon can. Of course I could be completely wrong.

found out you don't have to use the compiz-fusion-icon. You can click "run program" and type "xfwm4" (or do it from terminal) and presto, instant windows. Still not sure why it isn't ran on startup.

[GermanTux]

found out you don't have to use the compiz-fusion-icon. You can click "run program" and type "xfwm4" (or do it from terminal) and presto, instant windows. Still not sure why it isn't ran on startup.

Because Compiz screws it up. 

[Ron Ritzman]

the 3d desktop which is for some reason enabled in some of the nvidia/ati drivers uses the emerald window manager by default ... not xfwm ... this causes the windows not to get drawn by your graffix card until you run compiz

I'm not doubting you but I did create a new account and when logging in to it, windows were fine. When I first installed xfce through synaptic it was 4.6 and the window manager wouldn't start by itself. I later added "xfce4" to synaptic and upgraded to 4.8. The second account was created after the upgrade. From this I'm going to guess that there was a "bad setting" somewhere in my original 4.6 profile that was migrated over to 4.8. I've looked through ~.config/xfce4 but couldn't find anything.

Has xfwm4 always lived in /usr/bin?

[xfcewrecker]

I also lost most of my xfce desktop. Very frustrating, must be a recent upgrade that borked something.

However,

as my sig displays, my efforts to find a solution were very unsuccessful. Very. I now have no windowing/X system in my gdm, just 3d config and "run an X script"

So,

Is there a way to install task-xfce from cli?

If i use rpm I would need a full list of all files, and tell me if I'm wrong, some way to identify the files on the cd? or through a repo? rpm won't calculate my deps right?

[xfcewrecker]

Ok folks don't do any work for this request, I have begun re-installing pclinuxos phoenix, if you know a simple way to have solved my problem, then post it by all means, but don't work too hard, I am going the nuke it route.

[xfcewrecker]

So,

I reinstalled OS, and when I logged in....

No windowing just applications without frames, no resize, move etc.
and that is before any upgrades at all.

So,

Now I am going to create a new user...

please stand by
OK
the new user has windows and frames, so something in the way of a user file being borked probably during an upgrade is now much more likely to be the culprit.

I will re-read this thread for temp solutions (which may end up being using the new user) and I hope to hear a perm solution soon.

Let me know if I can help.