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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
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.
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?
"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.
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. ;(
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.
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