Bug 766949

Summary: xfce problems after centos 6.1 upgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk>
Component: xfwm4Assignee: Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el6CC: cyberman, kevin, maxamillion
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Description Dimitri Maziuk 2011-12-12 20:40:31 UTC
Description of problem:

Upgraded to centos 6.1 and rebooted. After login: 
1) no window decorations ('xfwm4 --replace' fixes that).
2) no workspaces (used to be 4). (Fixable via settings manager.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xfce4-panel-4.8.3-2.el6.x86_64
xfce4-doc-4.8.3-1.el6.noarch
xfce4-session-4.8.1-4.el6.x86_64
xfce-utils-4.8.3-1.el6.x86_64
xfce4-session-engines-4.8.1-4.el6.x86_64
xfce4-power-manager-1.0.10-1.el6.x86_64
libxfce4ui-4.8.0-4.el6.x86_64
libxfce4util-4.8.1-2.el6.x86_64
xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0-2.el6.x86_64
xfce4-mixer-4.8.0-1.el6.x86_64
xfce4-settings-4.8.3-1.el6.x86_64
xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-5.el6.noarch
xfwm4-4.8.1-3.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-12-12 21:00:16 UTC
OK, a couple of restarts later: I verified that xfce4-session is not starting the window manager, and that # of workspaces is reset to 1 on every login.

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2011-12-12 21:14:26 UTC
Are you sure you are saving a session with xfwm4 running? and it's completing ok?

Anything in ~/.xsession-errors related to a xfwm4 crash?

Does making a new clean user show the same behavior?

Comment 3 Dimitri Maziuk 2011-12-12 21:27:08 UTC
"No", "no", "not tried b/c #1 is the correct answer". 

So the best guess is initially, after I ran yum update and hit "restart" button on the logout dialog, the session got somehow saved with xfwm4 not running? 

After that I was starting xfwm4 from an xterm without '&', I can see how that would kill the wm before saving the session.

Thanks.

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2011-12-13 03:31:36 UTC
Yeah, that seems to be the case. ;( 

We have seen sporadic cases where a logout has a xfwm4 crash, then it doesn't get saved in the session. Causing it to not show up in later sessions. ;( 

We have not been able to track down the issue. ;(

Comment 5 Max Kessler 2012-02-11 22:51:36 UTC
I am not having trouble with window decorations, but I am having trouble with the number of workspaces being reset to 1.  I can also set the number of workspaces manually every time I login.  I'm using F16 on 686.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:46:49 UTC
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Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2020-11-30 15:55:34 UTC
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