Two issues with Xfce

Deusdies · 2011-12-25 21:44:24

Hi,

I've just switched from KDE to Xfce to experiment and I love it!

I have two problems, however:

1) Every time I boot my laptop, the applications from the previous session (the ones I used before shutting down) are restored. I don't want this to happen - how can I make the new empty session to start every time?

2) When I try to suspend to RAM, close the lid, even lock the screen, the screen would go blank (actually it'd turn off), and then I'd be unable to wake the computer. From the laptop LEDs I can see that it did not go into suspend mode. The only solution to this is to hard shutdown using the pwr button.

Now I've had this problem with KDE before, but adding acpi_sleep=s3_bios to kernel line fixed it. Now that doesn't work either.

Thanks for your answers in advance

headkase · 2011-12-25 21:59:29

I know the answer to #1: Uncheck "Save session for future logins" when you log out. Never re-check it. Also, In the Xfce menu > Settings > Session and Startup, in the General tab, uncheck "Automatically save session on logout" as well. Now, also, you probably have some old sessions hanging around so you need to clear those out. Open a terminal, "cd ~/.cache/sessions", once there "rm *" (or "rm -r *"). Now you're all set up session wise, just don't re-check any of the session-saving options again.

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Deusdies · 2011-12-25 22:04:57

Thanks a lot, that solved problem #1

olorian · 2011-12-25 22:52:27

About problem #2, make yourself sure that you don't have any problem with graphics driver. I've experienced an exactly identical problem with both closed and open source drivers until I was able to activate 3d acceleration. Try glxinfo | gren render: if it tells you something weird instead of "yes, gallium" [for example], that might be the source of your problem.

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Deusdies · 2011-12-25 23:20:53

I'm suspecting graphic drivers too, but I need to find a workaround.

And 3D accel/direct rendering is enabled:

$ glxinfo | grep render

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6300 series Graphics
    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

Psykorgasm · 2011-12-25 23:44:35

No idea but I know #2 isn't just an arch thing, last time I was over my mothers she had me having a look at her laptop because of the same problems with Fedora 16 XFCE with both proprietary and open source nvidia drivers.

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#1 2011-12-25 21:44:24

Two issues with Xfce

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