Debian + Xfce4

[killermoehre]

Am 13.06.2012 17:41, schrieb John Coppens:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:29:49 +0200 (CEST)
> timystery at arcor.de  wrote:
>
>> Nope. I have several Debians on both 32 and 64 bit computers with Xfwm4 as debian packages and from time to time and start to start I have to execute xfwm4 manually.
> Actually, a student of mine had the same problem - when booting, xfwm4
> wasn't not running. I suggested saving a session with xfwm4 started
> manually and then disable auto-saving sessions. That seems to have
> worked.
>
> Which make me suspect that auto-saving a session doesn't save a manually
> started xfwm4 instance. Haven't had time to investigate further...
>
> John

If you don't start xfwm4 within the session manager (see the 
--sm-client-id=XXXX switch) the sm can't recognize it. Simple.

Regards