xfce doesn't stay put!

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sun Mar 5 21:58:23 CET 2006


Christel,

Christel Robert wrote:
> Here's what happens, it loads everything nicely, the desktop appears, half a second later the panel appear along with the iconbox and then pooof! It closes everything and takes me back to user/password/session chooser. What's up?
> I'm on Icewm at the moment but I don't like it. I want my xubuntu back!
> Any help welcome.

Try this: Run a failsafe session (ie a session that simply run a 
terminal alone, no window manager, nothing but a naked terminal).

 From that terminal, run "startxfce4" - That should give you a hint on 
what dies and maybe even why it dies.

HTH
Cheers,
Olivier.




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