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KavisKryptic

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Registered: 2019-08-08

Posts: 1

| XFCE Issues | Some gui options won't respond

[Context] :

Hey so I have just installed Arch a day or so ago, and it's also the first time I have installed any Linux distro, or OS for that matter. And first time I've used a terminal too! Very difficult but oddly satisfying experience (once it's working). Arch forums and wikis are really well saturated with helpful info.

[Issue]:

One issue I did notice after logging in for the time was that when I click on any of the options that show up when I right click (Settings, Display Settings, Change Background), nothing happens. This also goes for some other options such as power settings and account settings.

I looked around in the forums and I found that someone had a similar issue but when I tried to do what others instructed them to do, it didn't work.

But here is some info they asked in that post, so I'll just input my own here just in case any of you need it too to help out.

Name            : xfwm4
Version         : 4.12.5-1
Description     : Xfce window manager
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.xfce.org/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxfce4ui  libwnck  libdrm  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : xfwm4-themes
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2028.00 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Sun Jul 29 06:24:36 2018
Install Date    : Wed Aug 7 21:59:47 2019
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Running

 xfwm4-settings 

or

 xfwm4-tweaks-settings 

outputs

 These settings cannot work with your current window manager (GNOME Shell) 

And running

 echo $DISPLAY 

outputs

 :0 

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,423

Re: | XFCE Issues | Some gui options won't respond

How are you logging in and starting xfce? Post all files in relation to this, also

hostnamectl
loginctl session-status