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Hi everyone,
I have a weird issue. Whenever I start a DE (lxqt, xfce) session from the cli using startx, I can open an application but then all the menus and buttons of the whole DE become unresponsive. I have to switch to, for example, tty2 and back to somehow "reset" the DE session. After switching system behaves as normal again. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I tried without systemd-logind, with lightDM, whitout, can't find anything useful in the logs (Xorg.0.log, .xsessions-log, dmesg) unless I missed something. And yes, probably a PEBCAK.
Cheers.
[EDIT1]: it seems to be the focus steal prevention option in Xfce (Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Focus -> Activate focus stealing prevention). Turned this off and everything fine again.
[EDIT2]: and it is back again. Doesn't have to do with Xfce compositing, nor the focus stealing stuff. Maybe it is the kernel version though I tried (I think, since I did 40 reboots to check all kind of different mix of settings) it with 4.20 as well and it seemed to work...for a while apparently. Maddening!
Last edited by Ulf (2019-01-06 20:10:14)
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I might have a related issue, which occurs on linux 4.20.
Does downgrading to 4.19 make it work for you?
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