Window manager hints error?

[Biju Chacko]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:31:50 -0500, Bill Witherspoon wrote:

> * 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?

Hmmm ... thats the correct way. I guess it's crashing soon after startup. Can
you post the contents of your .xsession-errors ?

-- b

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