no window manager after ubuntu upgrade

[Hex1a4]

In the time of Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:16:47 +0200
thus spoke Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de>:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
Either you're not running a full Xfce session, or your window manager
crashed.  Simply press Alt+F2 and run /usr/bin/xfwm4 to start the
window manger.  Once you've configured Xfce to your liking, logout
clicking the 'Save session for future logins' check box and log back
in. 

Good luck

-- 
hex1a4.net || mirror.hex1a4.net || xubuntu.linux.hex1a4.net