Linus, Gnome 3, and *lots* of Xfce comments

killermoehre killermoehre at gmx.net
Thu Jun 7 19:57:27 CEST 2012


Am 07.06.2012 19:54, schrieb Ray Andrews:
> Killer,
> 
> 
> On 07/06/12 10:31 AM, killermoehre wrote:
>>
>> As for me, I still don't know what it is that I'm supposed to be
>> missing.  Apart from that 'Session manager not found' bug, I  find XFCE
>> to be better in every respect than G2, and I couldn't get G3 to run at
>> all, so can't say much about it.  I should run MATE, so that I can get
>> some idea why anyone would even want to run anything other than XFCE.
>> For the moment I'm happy in my ignorance ;-)
>> Is xfce4-session-manager installed? How do you start your session?
> 'xfce4-session' is installed.  I start with 'startxfce4'. Everything
> works fine unless I try to quit xfce while a document needs to be saved
> and that document is not visible (I think when it's on another
> workspace). It seems that all that is needed is for xfce to somehow
> bring up the 'save' dialogue.  If I remember in time, and bring up the
> needed workspace, and save the document before the session manager times
> out, then all is fine.  It seems to me that it should be an easy bug to
> fix, but then again I'm not a dev.

Is xfce4-session running? What says »echo $SESSION_MANAGER«? Try to
delete your cache (log out, delete ~/.cache/sessions/*, log in back).



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 900 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/attachments/20120607/fb9182b8/attachment-0001.pgp>


More information about the Xfce mailing list