Unable to launch XFCE Settings Manager

John Coppens john at jcoppens.com
Sun Jun 29 00:48:23 CEST 2008


On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:05:36 -0400
"Erik Harrison" <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Setya Djajadinata <jsetya at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Not at all, even when you launch from terminal nothing happens, not
> > even a message thrown. Is there any log file I can look into ?
> 
> Not really, if you're not seeing anything on the command line.
> 
> My best guess is that your install got hosed in some way. I'd ask on a
> Fedora mailing list. You could also try forcing a reinstall of the
> Xfce components.

if nothing at all shows, there is another problem - else at least a
message should complain about an unknown command. So at least it seems it
starts.

I'd suggest one or both of:

strace xfce-setting-show

gdb xfce-setting-show

to see if that gives something interesting.

John



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