Problems with Ubuntu 12.04 * Xfce 4.8

[killermoehre]

Am 12.06.2012 11:55, schrieb Liviu Andronic:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Guido Berhoerster<gber at opensuse.org>  wrote:
>> >On 12.06.2012 10:47, killermoehre wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>just delete ~/.cache/sessions/*. That's all. For anything else there is
>> >
>> >There is no need to do that, just start xfwm4 manually, e.g. via xfrun4.
>> >(This is probably the single most frequently reported bug/asked question in
>> >Xfce.)
>> >
> Indeed, but this is also a very disturbing experience. When it first
> happened to me---a long time ago---I was in a meeting, and had*no*
> idea what was wrong and how to fix it. All in all, disastrous. It
> would be nice to fix this---avoid xfwm4 dying on its own---or have
> Xfce detect when no WM is running and propose the user to fire-up
> xfwm4.
>
> Liviu

Normally xfce4-session detects if xfwm4 dies and restart it ASAP. But 
sometimes this doesn't work. Due to the random nature, this is nearly 
undebuggable.