On 08/21/2012 09:46:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT)
Max Pyziur <pyz(a)brama.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality
stopped.
>
> No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-
Tab.
> Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window
> disappeared. There are a few other similar abnormalities.
>
> I thought that this may have been due to some sort of a software
> update; but I haven't done any in the last few days.
>
> I know that there is an oddity/bug in XFCE that the keyboard stops
> functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long.
>
> But this seems to be something very differt.
>
> If anyone has experienced this problem and resolved it, please
share
> your solution.
>
> Otherwise, it's into the Gnome 3 world.
Sounds like (as several other folks have mentioned) xfwm4 died.
If you can get to a terminal, do:
xfwm4 --replace &
If you cannot, you can try clearing your session out and logging in
again:
rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-sessions*
Note that this will clear out things like what applications you had
running, etc.
Here's a solution to the problem of restarting xfwm4 without a
keyboard. Put the command in a launcher. I haven't confirmed this yet,
but as there is no keyboard involved, it should work.