xfwm4 cvs bug

[Auke Kok]

Xavier Otazu wrote:
> 
>     Of course I made 'make install'. Since the problem appears to be with
> the WM (i.e. the xfwm4 program), I simply copy the 'xfwm4' executable
> file to its usual location /usr/local/bin (where 'make install' copy the
> executable to).
> 
>     I don't know where the problem come from (permisions on some files
> xfwm4 read, or some kind of 'crash' of xfwm4 program), but when starting
> xfce, only root is able to load 'xfwm4' program into memory.

try running 'strace xfwm4' as a normal user and see what goes wrong... 
it might provide some usefull output...

Also... it would *really* help if you could show some error message! YES 
you can run xfwm4 from a terminal !

sofar