XFCE not working in different DISPLAYs

killermoehre killermoehre at gmx.net
Tue Dec 24 13:02:16 CET 2013


Am 23.12.2013 23:58, schrieb houghi:
> I have 4 monitors with each a DISPLAY running :0.0 :0.1 :0.2 and :0.4
> I have 2 Nvidea cards with NVidea drivers
> I have openSUSE 13.1, upgrade and also a new clean install
> I have XFCE 4.10
> 
> Sometimes screen 0 and screen 1 do not have any wallpaper, nor is it
> possible to right-click. When I change the wallaper, I do not see any
> wallpaper.
> 
> In openSUSE 12.3 this used to work perfectly. Now sometimes when I log in,
> it works great and I see the wallpapers and I can right click. Sometimes
> it is not working on just screen 0 and sometimes not on screen 0 and 1.
> 
> I can run programs on those screens.
> 
> Seems to be happening at random and again: both on upgrade and on a new
> clean install on a separate partition. Right click does nothing, yet when
> I go to a different screen, it works perfectly.
> 
> Where can I start looking where the problem comes from? Is there anything
> else I could do to help finding the problem? If need be I can film what
> happens or try to take screenshots and put video and/or images on my site
> or elsewhere.
> 
> It is as if part of XFCE is not running on those displays.
> 
> houghi
> 

Hi houghi,

Sounds like xfdesktop is not running on some screens. Maybe you find
some logs where the crash report is listed. Or you start it from the
terminal and wait for the crash for an error report.

Regards

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