no window manager after ubuntu upgrade

[David Mohr]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> I have a ubuntu system with gnome and xfce installed, because I have
> different users with different preferences.
>
> I did an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04.1.
>
> The system is comming up and gnome works flawlessly, but when I login to a
> xfce-session (my personally preferred one), there is no window-manager:
> xfce starts and I have the menus at the top and the bottom of the screen.
> But no window has a frame, there is no window-decoration with title and
> buttons. So I cannot move or resize any window. Also missing is the
> right-click-at-background-menu.
>
>
> I suppose one of the xfce (sub-)programs is missing, but which one (and why?)?
>
> After login I have the following xfce processes:
>
> USER       PID  PPID %CPU    VSZ COMMAND
> framstag  8246  8243  0.0  43400 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-menu-plugin socket_id 18874408 name xfce4-menu id 1 display_name Xfce Menu size 34 screen_position 1
> framstag  8240     1  0.0  19876 xfce-mcs-manager
> framstag  8235  8077  0.0  22340 /usr/bin/xfce4-session
> framstag  8077  6866  0.0   1772 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> framstag  8243  8235  0.0  43724 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 117f000101000118426508500000061020001 --display :0.0
> framstag  8212  8077  0.0  21624 /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute startxfce4

For the background right click to work, xfdesktop needs to be
installed (package name is xfdesktop4 in debian).

~David