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Re: Life without a Window Manager

  • Subject: Re: Life without a Window Manager
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:16:09 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 06 October 2006 00:41 \__

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Culley belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> begin  risky.vbs
>> <l56dnXY_4KETc7nYnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>> Man, last night XFce blew up in my face!
>>> 
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>> Turns out there was no xfwm4 (window manager) running!  WTF?
>>> 
>>> I look around in .config/xfce4, but could not find anything to fix.
>>
>> Why didn't you just run the xfce (or any) wm from a terminal window. A
>> wm is just an X client albeit a rather special one.
> 
> I did that, but no go.  But I had the wrong args anyway:
> 
>    xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a86d12000109923752900000003540000 --display
>    :0.0
> 
> All is well, though.  Actually a little better as it seems a wee bit
> faster.
> 
> Next time I'll do better forensics!

That's why they call it "beta" and advice that you only install it on your
test machine (or test CMS or whatever). *smile*

Hope you get this sorted out...

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