No window manager

[Travis Crook]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:34:07 +0100
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 08:08 -0700, Travis Crook wrote:
> > Unfortunately I don't have window borders and I can't move windows.  I
> > also 
> > cannot launch xfdesktop and xftaskbar4 from a terminal because I
> > can't 
> > open a terminal.  Could it be a configuration file is corrupted
> > somehow?
> 
> Best would be to run a failsafe session (ie just a terminal) from your
> display manager and run "startxfce4" from there.
> 

I see how to do that from another post.  Thanks!
> That will not fix your problems, but at least, you'll be able to see any
> important message that could lead to the problem.
> 
> Also, what GTK theme are you using? For example the "Qt" gtk theme is
> known to cause a lot of problems.

How do I find this out?  Is this just one of the themes listed under the 
settings manager?
> 
> At last, rename the setting directory:
> 
> mv $HOME/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings $HOME/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings.old
> 
> and rerun startxfce4
> 

Aha!  I've always wondered where that was!

Thank you!  
> HTH
> Olivier.
> 
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