On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Jesse Young wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:32:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, RedShift wrote:
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> Solved by rebooting...
>>>>
>>>> I think xfwm4 was simply not being started. Why it took a reboot to cause
>>>> that
>>>> I don't know, since by exiting X I would have expected it to start the
>>>> window
>>>> manager.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose a quick inspection of the initialization scripts will answer this
>>>> question for me.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks anyway,
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you log out and back in after you reinstalled xfwm4?
>>
>> No; I just quit xfce4 and ran "startx" once back at the console.
>>
>> Was the issue that a startup script wasn't run?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> My guess was that some parts of your environment were missing that xfwm
> required to run properly. A login/out would have reread your
> /etc/profile, and included the needed environment variables.
Thanks. I'll take a look at those files. Even though the problem is solved,
I'd like to understand what happened.
Michael
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