XFCE 4.10 freezes windows in upper left hand corner.

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 22:04:00 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 17:27 -0400, john Culleton wrote:
> > When I fire up Seamonkey, a version of Mozilla, it goes to the upper
> > left hand corner and can't be moved. The file menu won't work. I
> > had to use <ctrl> Q to kill it.
> > 
> > KDE has neither of these problems.  
> > 
> > I have xrandr in play to get a more reasonable size of objects on my
> > screen. Could that be the problem?
> 
> Is XFWM4 (the XFCE Window Manager" running? If not, then you'll never
> get to put the windows anywhere you want and only will they show up
> cemented/frozen to the upper left hand corner.
> 
> Do the "alt-F2" thing and type in "xfwm4" and run... I'm betting
> that'll fix it.
> 
Why do I need to do this every time? It seems to me that his would be 
automatic when I select XFCE as my GUI du jour. 


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