How to restore session manager

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 05:12:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:16:11 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>Thanks, but no joy, Apparently xfwm4 was already running.  
>
>I wonder what "xfce4 function" in your original request is for. Since
>you are unwilling to describe your issue by providing a view details,
>nobody is able to help you. It's only possible to provide shots in the
>dark.
>
>Did you run another file manager instead of Thunar? If so, it's
>possible that you still run a Xfce4 session, but the file manager
>might have taken over the desktop.
>
>We could provide tons of different shots in the dark and even if one
>shot in the dark should fix the issue, it might not fix the cause and
>you easily could run into that issue again.
>
>What is "Another session manager is already running" for? Did you read
>it anywhere? Is it copy and pasted from something?
>
>What processes are running or not running?
>
>Did you e.g. run ps and grep for keywords?
>
>ps aux | grep xf | grep 4
>ps aux | grep session
>ps aux | grep foo
>ps aux | grep bar | grep desktop_or_whatsoever
>
>Did you try already anything? If so, what? If not, why not?

PS:

When I was a child no computers existed in any private household, but we
already had a saying:

"to have to worm sth. out of sb.	jdm. die Würmer aus der Nase ziehen müssen"
- https://www.dict.cc/?s=w%C3%BCrmer+aus+der+nase+ziehen

Troubleshooting as well as communication already existed way before the
first home computer was available.

If you go to the doctor, you won't ask to get back "human function", you would
explain what function is broken, e.g.

I can't move my arm. It doesn't hurt, if I try to do it, it's impossible to
move the arm, nothing happens if I try to move my arm.

You are the expert for the issue you experience, it isn't the doctor who
knows what you experience. After the communication the doctor might know
more than you, but in the first place, you are the one who knows the most
and you are the one who needs to describe the details.

-- 
pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-cornflower,-pussytoes,,-securityink}}|cut -d\  -f2
5.2.1.arch1-1
5.2_rt1-0
5.0.21_rt16-1
5.0.19_rt11-1
4.19.50_rt22-0