Window manager hints error?

Bill Witherspoon billw at witherspoon-design.com
Fri Dec 26 16:31:50 CET 2003


* Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> [2003-12-26 10:05:28 +0530]:

> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:10:20 -0500, Bill Witherspoon wrote:
> 
> > Happy holidays,
> > I've got the following error on XFCE4-4.0.1, and the latest (but not on
> > 4.0.0):
> > "Your window manager does not seem to support the new window manager
> > hints as defined by http://www.freedesktop.org. Some XFCE features may
> > not work as intended"
> > 
> > Sure enough! I have no window decorations, and my focus doesn't move
> > with the mouse.
> > 
> > Have I borked something in a config file?
> 
> Sounds like your window manager isn't running.
> 
> -- b
> 
> -- 

I've just been using the following in my .xinitrc file:

xset -b

/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash &
exec startxfce4

Has startxfce4 been deprecated? (I've dropped back down to 4.0.0 again,
and can't check...) How is everyone else start XFCE?

Thanks for the help.

Bill.





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