Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-11 Thread David King 

contents of

~/.xsession-errors


Script for ibus started at run_im.
Script for auto started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
init: Disconnected from notified D-Bus bus






On 10/09/15 11:32, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:01 +0100, David King wrote:

I have tried different desktop environment of plain XFCE instead of
Ubuntu Studio Session, and it fails just the same.

I logged in as a Guest, and that worked okay, no problems at all. So
it must be a problem for my own user account only.

So you always used different flavours of Xfce4, but alway running xfwm4?
The command wmctrl -m shows you what WM actually is running [1].

Any file named ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log or ~/.xsession-errors
available? If so, do they include anything related to the issue? First
read and google before sending a request regarding log files.

Did you try move xfconf?

First test just moving xfwm4.xml.

$ mv -i ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml ~/xfwm4.xml.backup

After moving log out and in.

If needed try moving xfconf completely.

$ mv -i ~/xfwm4.xml.backup ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
$ mv -i ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/ ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf.backup

After moving log out and in. Note, I don't have Xfce4 installed for my
Ubuntu, so I don't have access to it and can verify the hints I give.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
$ sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install wmctrl
$ wmctrl -m

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-11 Thread David King 
Thanks for your suggestion. I removed the most recent sessions (since 
the date it went wrong) and so now when I log it, it must have gone to 
the previous session, which means all back to normal and working okay.



David K



On 11/09/15 12:30, Toni Sissala wrote:

On 10.9.2015 12:27, David King wrote:
When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title 
bar, etc.


Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not 
a hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no 
doubt a problem with my user account.




I have had similar problems in xfce with missing window decorations 
and title bars. My problem was a corrupted session which started at 
login. Solution was quite simple:


$ sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
$ sudo reboot


Toni



David K


On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:



On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King > wrote:


I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date,
with default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but
today when logging in, there are serious problems, such as no
title bars or other window decorations, no programs showing on the
panel. Then all windows disappear along with the panel, leaving me
just the desktop and its icons.

I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system
settings, but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.

I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to
use Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.

How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or 
changed?




David K


Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, 
does your hardware support compositing in Linux?




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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf 
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:30:59 +0300, Toni Sissala wrote:
>$ sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
>$ sudo reboot

Try with logging out and logging in instead of a reboot. FWIW
depending to policy settings 'reboot', 'shutdown -r now' usually
doesn't need root privileges.

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-11 Thread Toni Sissala 

On 10.9.2015 12:27, David King wrote:
When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title bar, 
etc.


Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not 
a hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no 
doubt a problem with my user account.




I have had similar problems in xfce with missing window decorations and 
title bars. My problem was a corrupted session which started at login. 
Solution was quite simple:


$ sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
$ sudo reboot


Toni



David K


On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:



On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King > wrote:


I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date,
with default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but
today when logging in, there are serious problems, such as no
title bars or other window decorations, no programs showing on the
panel. Then all windows disappear along with the panel, leaving me
just the desktop and its icons.

I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system
settings, but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.

I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to
use Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.

How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or 
changed?




David K


Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, 
does your hardware support compositing in Linux?




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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-10 Thread David King 

When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title bar, etc.

Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not a 
hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no doubt a 
problem with my user account.



David K


On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:



On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King > wrote:


I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date,
with default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but
today when logging in, there are serious problems, such as no
title bars or other window decorations, no programs showing on the
panel. Then all windows disappear along with the panel, leaving me
just the desktop and its icons.

I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system
settings, but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.

I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to
use Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.

How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or changed?



David K


Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, 
does your hardware support compositing in Linux?




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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-10 Thread David King 
I have tried different desktop environment of plain XFCE instead of 
Ubuntu Studio Session, and it fails just the same.


I logged in as a Guest, and that worked okay, no problems at all. So it 
must be a problem for my own user account only.



David K


On 09/09/15 21:46, Set Hallström wrote:



On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King > wrote:

I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to
date, with default XFCE desktop. It was working well
yesterday, but today when logging in, there are serious
problems, such as no title bars or other window decorations,
no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows disappear
along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.

I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system
settings, but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.


When you boot your session, at the login prompt in the top-corner, is 
there a menu to chose desktop environement?


*Set


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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-10 Thread Mike Holstein 
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:27 AM, David King  wrote:

> When I saw compositing, I just mean the window decorations, title bar, etc.
>

what i meant by "compositing" was, compositing.. is it enabled?


>
> Hardware is powerful enough and it all worked previously. This is not a
> hardware problem. It works with logging in as a Guest. It is no doubt a
> problem with my user account.
>
>
that typically  does add up.. why dont you simply try removing/renaming
your users config, or, create a new user, and see if the issue is in your
users config..

cheers..



>
> David K
>
>
>
> On 09/09/15 18:51, Mike Holstein wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King < 
> linux...@avoura.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date, with
>> default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but today when logging
>> in, there are serious problems, such as no title bars or other window
>> decorations, no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows disappear
>> along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.
>>
>> I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system settings,
>> but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.
>>
>> I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to use
>> Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.
>>
>> How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or changed?
>>
>>
>>
>> David K
>>
>
> Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, does
> your hardware support compositing in Linux?
>
>
>
>
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[ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-09 Thread David King 
I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date, with 
default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but today when 
logging in, there are serious problems, such as no title bars or other 
window decorations, no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows 
disappear along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.


I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system settings, 
but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.


I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to use 
Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.


How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or changed?


David K
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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-09 Thread Set Hallström 
On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King  wrote:
>
>> I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date, with
>> default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but today when logging
>> in, there are serious problems, such as no title bars or other window
>> decorations, no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows disappear
>> along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.
>>
>> I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system settings,
>> but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.
>>
>
When you boot your session, at the login prompt in the top-corner, is there
a menu to chose desktop environement?

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Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

2015-09-09 Thread Mike Holstein 
On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, David King  wrote:

> I am using Ubuntu Studio 14.04, and it has been kept up to date, with
> default XFCE desktop. It was working well yesterday, but today when logging
> in, there are serious problems, such as no title bars or other window
> decorations, no programs showing on the panel. Then all windows disappear
> along with the panel, leaving me just the desktop and its icons.
>
> I can right click to get a menu, and tried going to the system settings,
> but clicking on Window Manager did nothing.
>
> I can still run Linux Mint on the same PC (which I am doing now to use
> Thunderbird) but my Ubuntu Studio is broken.
>
> How can I fix this? What configuration needs to be checked or changed?
>
>
>
> David K
>

Since you mentioned compositing. Are you using compositing? If so, does
your hardware support compositing in Linux?




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