Suddenly, my xfce4 desktop manager is behaving very weird: the frame around windows for moving or closing them are missing, I cannot switch between windows or bring windows in the background by clicking on a different window.
This would be the behavior with no desktop manager running, right?
But echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
says xfce and ps ax | grep xfce
says:
1755 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
1794 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
1797 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
1806 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd 1814 ? Sl 0:00 xfce4-session
1827 ? Sl 0:00 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 27b5d67b9-b659-4133-8e86-12fee0e6b5a4
1837 ? S 0:00 xfce4-settings-helper --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2764eefc4-8568-487f-87e9-94ca8fc1c661
1903 ? Sl 0:00 xfce4-mixer
1906 ? Ssl 0:00 xfce4-volumed 2068 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 18874424 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear
2070 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4-mixer/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mixer-plugin 15 18874425 xfce4-mixer-plugin Mixer Volume control for your sound card
2071 ? S 0:01 /usr/lib/orage/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-orageclock-plugin 5 18874426 xfce4-orageclock-plugin Orage Panel Clock Show time and date?
So are all processes that xfce4 requires running? Is it just not configures correctly? In short: What might cause this behavior, and how can I fix this?
Best Answer
This is a well-known bug in
Xfce 4.10
and it happens when for some reasonxfwm4
exits and isn't being automatically restarted. When this happens, usealt+f2
or just open a terminal window, focus it (i.e. hover the mouse on top of it) and executexfwm4 --replace
. This should bring back WM buttons (close, min, etc.).See also: