http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=21010
I deleted ~/.cache/sessions and all works now.
]]>And something which may help with session saving...
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7320
I suggest that you look at this notice, and/or check xfce4-session's man page, and go from there.
If you want to follow skunktrader's idea, here's an interesting snippet:
xfce4-session uses the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions/ directory for
starting previously saved sessions.
Please note that I'm still using Xfce 4.6 (4.8 is the current version), so there may be differences on your system.
]]>thanks stqn and skunktrader
]]>If shutdown was stuck and you forced it, maybe some files didn't get written to disk and that caused your problem.
Unfortunately, I have no idea how xfwm4 is started normally... BTW, does it work if you just run it once you're under X?
The drive cache messages are nothing to be worried about. I get them for all my USB drives.
Middle mouse button scrolling in Firefox has to be enabled in about:config (the default setting under Linux is to paste selected text with the MMB.) Unless you're talking about rotating the wheel...
]]>of interest, all daughter windows opened up by firefox do not have sliders, but the first window does. and do not permit mouse middle button scrolling
Anything else that may point to the problem?
]]>after installing a lovely stable xfce environment, on mounting an external ntfs hard drive and not having it plugged in on startup again, all windows opened by the DE appear in the topleft overlayi panel 1, have no buttons to manipulate (eg resize/minimise) and cannot be dragged or given focus by clicking with the mouse pointer. Also, despite setting for 4 workspaces, only one is present now.
I have tried a search and also looked on the wiki and have not found this being reproduced. My workaround at present is to open htop and kill processes to remove them. Harsh I know, I don't like killing much also.
I am an old amiga user and love the simplicity and minimlistic feel of arch with xfce
Thank you!
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