On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:19 -0600
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
This happened in F15 and I thought I was just ignorant.
Now that it has happened again in F16 I realize it is a software
problem.
When Gnome is configured for a user and then the user tries to use
Xfce they find that the Xfce is corrupted in various ways. Namely:
What do you mean by 'gnome is configured for a user' ?
They logged in with gnome? something else?
1. when Firefox is run the top menu choices can not be used. You
click
on Edit for example and you see the Edit menu, When you move the
cursor down the menu and the menu disappears.
Sounds like a window manager focus issue...
2. Gnome display image bleeds into Xfce.
display image? Not sure what you mean here...
3. Evolution after awhile has the same problem as Firefox.
4. Running the Software Update program causes the update window to be
so large that you can't see the options like "Install" at the bottom
of the window,
Whats your screen resolution?
5. You can't set up multiple workspaces.
etc., etc and so forth.
What happens when you try and do so?
In F15 the corruptions were slightly different. Foe example the menu
you got when you clicked on the Desktop was the Gnome menu not the
Xfce menu.
Other strange things happened like you get a view of the home
directory immediately when you log in to Xfce,
It would be interesting to hear whether others have seen similar
effects.
It sounds like somehow you have had metacity take over for xfwm4.
Can you open up a terminal and run a 'ps aux' and see which window
manager is running?
xfwm4 --replace &
and then logging out and back on to save the session with xfwm4 running
might help?
kevin