Window manager collapse?

[Anzan Hoshin Roshi]

On 22 May 2011 19:53, Eddie <penguinismo at almostconnecticut.net> wrote:

Hi,

> This is on Foresight Linux 2.5, 32-bit. I installed it on my laptop last
> week, ran an "updateall" command yesterday, and ended up with Xfce
> 4.8.2, bumped up from 4.8.1.
>
> Today, I fired up Foresight, idly went into Settings | Appearance |
> Themes, and switched from the default "xfce-green" to another: I
> believe it was "xfce-kde2". Immediately after that, everything started
> acting differently. Emacs and Opera opened without the
> minimize/maximize/close buttons, and the window position covered up the
> top panel. Same with the terminal emulator. Otherwise, they worked. In
> Firefox, the menus were almost inaccessible, and keystroke commands
> (such as Ctrl-Q for Quit) didn't work. To close Firefox, I had to click
> on the File menu to open it and then hit Q on the keyboard before the
> menu disappeared.
>

Right. Just start xfwm4 and make sure it is in Application autostart in
Settings/Session and Startup and also save it in Sessions.

>
> The same thing happened once before, when I first installed Foresight
> Linux on this laptop. At the time, I just plowed it under and installed
> something else, but I like Foresight and decided to give it another try
> here. (That wouldn't have anything to do with the version of Xfce,
> because I'm quite sure 4.8.2 wasn't yet out.)
>
> The same thing happened on Mageia beta 1; there I installed the Xfce
> packages myself. It was the exact same symptom, though I do not believe
> I ever tried to change the default theme. The window manager just
> stopped functioning correctly.
>
> I've also had 64-bit Foresight on one other computer, and Xubuntu
> 11.04 (beta 1 and final) on two others, with no ill effects.
>
> Is there a file somewhere in Foresight that I can delete and have it go
> back to the "factory settings"?
>
> Is this a known problem? I looked through the Xfce Bugzilla and didn't
> find anything like it from this year, but I may not have been searching
> correctly. If this is in Bugzilla, I can look again and attempt to add
> my report to what is there.
>
> Sorry to make my first post on this list a whinge. Outside of these
> bumps, I am enjoying the hell out of Xfce.
>
>
>
Anzhr
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