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Kcir

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Registered: 2014-02-02

Posts: 2

Arch x64 xfce4 + kwin getting a black background

hello

Ive been looking online for a couple hours now and i cant seem to find any post anywhere regarding my situation. Ive got xfce4 installed, i was able to see a background but as soon as i replaced by kwin the background went black and i cant do anything about it and i cant right click in background. was wondering if anyone knew what went wrong and how i can fix that.

also im very new to arch but i know this worked on debian

im not to sure of what logs i can give you for more info so just tell me what to post and i will

Thank you in advance

Kcir

Last edited by Kcir (2014-02-02 21:02:12)

lfabiola

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Registered: 2014-02-03

Posts: 10

Re: Arch x64 xfce4 + kwin getting a black background

You need to make a launcher with a menu with both the commands to start xfwm4 and Kwin, when you get the black screen you change back to xfwm4 and then you change to Kwin again, and it will be fixed.

Another option is to blindly open the terminal and type " xfwm4 --replace " or whatever the command to start xfwm is, and --replace.

Kcir

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Registered: 2014-02-02

Posts: 2

Re: Arch x64 xfce4 + kwin getting a black background

Thank you for the reply,

But i already have that going in startup and i tried doing it anyway but i end up in same situation
Ive also noticed that the background i was seeing was from the slim login manager not xfwm4 so im in a whole new situation i thing caus i cant get any desktop interacting no icons no background no right click in xfwm4 nor kwin ...

Thanks again for you time

Kcir