New Install Help - window manager stopped working

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 08:16 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 07:58, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > Hi, hoping  for some help.  I installed 4.8 on a new server (FreeBSD 8.2, 64bit), so 
> > I have no old configs on the the server.  I started up xfce4 once and used the default 
> > layout.  I wanted to start fresh without my old settings/config.  I quit xfce, so I could 
> > install the nvidia driver (I was using the FreeBSD nv driver at first).  When I started xfce 
> > up again, the mouse pointer was a black X (like twm) and all the apps I tried to open start up
> > in the left corner and each new app starts over the next.  I can't move them since the window 
> > manager doesn't seem to be working.  I tried going into settings and clicking on window manager 
> > and window tweaks, nothing starts up.  I quit xfce, removed the dirs from my .config dir and 
> > started xfce up again.  I still get the same behavior.  Is the window manager a separate prog?
> 
> Just try starting the Window Manager.  Perhaps your session settings
> have been changed and the window manager is no longer listed to start
> automatically.
> 
>   $ xfwm4 &

That was it, thanks. 


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