[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#422455: Bug#422455: xfce4: xfwm4 doesn't start automatically

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim, 2007-05-06 at 20:07 +0200, Gaetano Guerriero wrote:
> I'll try to give more info.  I'm not a xfce4 user and I just wanted to
> give it a try.
> I did 'aptitude install xfce4' and the following packets were
> installed:
> 
> dbus-1-utils desktop-base desktop-file-utils gtk2-engines-xfce
> libexo-0.3-0 libtagc0 libthunar-vfs-1-2 libxfce4mcs-client3
> libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 mousepad orage thunar
> xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer
> xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-terminal xfce4-utils
> xfdesktop4 xfmedia xfprint4 xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xfce4.
> 
> xfce4 doesn't start his window manager. I tried to launch it with gdm,
> from console with startxfce4, and by putting 'exec xfce4-session' in
> ~/.xinitrc. 

Could you remove your .cache/sessions (just move it if you don't want to
lose it, but it should be safe, as there are only saved sessions there)
and retry startxfce4?

Thanks,
-- 
Yves-Alexis