xfce4-session: where do the default clients come from ?

Silvio Knizek killermoehre at gmx.net
Thu Nov 10 20:52:02 CET 2022


Am Donnerstag, dem 10.11.2022 um 12:56 +0100 schrieb Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm currently trying to understand, where xfce4-session takes the
> default clients like xfwm4 or xfdesktop from.
> 
> My xfconf file on my test box has an obviously broken xfconf
> (everything set to type empty, no mention of these progs), and session
> cache is cleared, but it still starts up these programs propertly.
> 
> So, there must be some builtin fallback, but can't find anything
> (eg. xfwm4 command line) in the source.
> 
> Where does that come from ?
> 
> 
> --mtx
> 
Hi,

you have in general the defaults in `/etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/*`. To actually _unset_ the values you would need to overwrite them in your local configuration.

BR\
Silvio


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