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Math

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 40

[SOLVED] Xfce4 - xfwm4 problem

Hey guys,

I'm using Xfce 4.10 on Arch, but for some reason I'm missing my title bar with this custom xfwm4 theme.
I can't customize it either(see image below).

I don' t have this problem with the same theme in Xfce 4.8 on Debian Wheezy.
Theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/X … tent=88496

I also got this with a few other themes(Cruxish, Greybird).
Is this a bug, or am I missing something xfwm4 related?

edit:
I tried to re-install xfwm4, also tried xfwm4 --replace, but nothing helped yet.
Will continue googling...

Last edited by Math (2013-01-22 05:23:52)

celticmusicguy

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From: Zuni, VA, USA

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4 - xfwm4 problem

Do you have an NVIDIA video card, and if so, are you using the proprietary NVIDIA driver? There was a known bug with the proprietary NVIDIA driver and some custom xfwm4 themes. I ran into this myself on a different PC a couple of months back that was using the proprietary driver. The one I'm on now is using the nouveau driver and has no problems with the same themes that had issues while using the proprietary driver. This forum thread might help you with that problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147846

As for the inability to customize the title alignment and button order, that's because the theme you're using specifies both of those settings in the themerc file. Try removing the following lines in /usr/share/themes/Xaphire-Aqua/xfwm4/themerc :

title_alignment=left
button_layout=|HMC

Once those lines are removed you should be able to customize those settings, although I suspect the buttons may not look right if you rearrange their order. The Close button has a straight left edge on it which is meant to connect to the Maximize button which is just to the left of it, so it might look a bit strange if you were to move the Close button to the left.

If you're really adventurous and feel like hacking on the theme a bit more, the following link might be useful:
http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme

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Math

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4 - xfwm4 problem

celticmusicguy, thanks for your reply.

I got this only with all xfwm4 themes I think, gtk works just fine.
It might be the nVidia proprietary drivers. Will try out the nouveau drivers to find out.

Math

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4 - xfwm4 problem

I've just installed the nouveau drivers, but I still have this problem.

Math

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce4 - xfwm4 problem

Alright seems to be an Xorg bug. Fixed it by stretching the 1px wide images to 2px in width.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1154755