New Install Help - window manager stopped working

[John Marshall]

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 &

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John Marshall