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blietaer

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Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 2

XFCE4 Desktop Going grey (and sometimes loosing compositing)

Hello,

It has been now one year since I left Gentoo for ArchLinux and I am really peaceful, amazed and happy !
Going lightweight-but-wit-features, I love XFCE4 for minimalistic, but still not having to re-invent the wheel (one day I'll go to openbox, but...not today)

Issue is that the desktop (background?) usually being solid color black (or whatever) turns light grey, having conky loosing its mind (trying to mimick the background)
Usually, this is followed by (the next boot) a lost of compositing and docky being static (no "jumping" icons)
I only solve this by rm'ing the .cache/session & .config/xfce4 (which I roll out from my backup at the next login/logout)

Do I get this after upgrading pacman/packages? hhhm...probably...I have an update script that I run every morning (I *love* updates)

I am not really sure what I should mention here in order to be helpable, however,
Nvidia GPU driver is : nouveau
sddm, xfce4, docky, conky, no fancy WM on top of it, except I have gtk-engine-murrine/gtk-xfce-engine, gnome-settings-daemon
style: greybird-1.5.3
icons: elementary xfce darkest

If you see what could be the issue here, or if I should drop more information here, or...if you think of tests/hints/workaround/...
Even sarcasm is welcome !

blietaer

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Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 2

Re: XFCE4 Desktop Going grey (and sometimes loosing compositing)

Damn... 

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,004

Re: XFCE4 Desktop Going grey (and sometimes loosing compositing)

Have you tried to start with fresh configurations?  In session and xfce4 config folders?

What compositor are you using?  Have you tried a different one?  I recommend Compiz along with Emerald.  Just do "emerald --replace" in the CCSM window decorator to use it, and start "compiz --replace" on your desktop login.  On my machine which is reasonably fast I use a script: "sleep 5 && compiz --replace &" and autostart the script.