xfce4.6 starts a dozen of xfdesktops out of nowhere

tiberiur · 2009-07-17 08:13:42

Hello everybody,

So here is the problem I am trying to solve.
I few weeks ago I upgraded from xfce4.4 to xfce4.6.
Big problems, especially when old configuration was kept, almost no documentation, etc.

What remains unsolved after a while of intermittent searching and documenting is:
whenever I start xfce having saved the session the last time I logged out,
a huge number of xfdesktop start until they fill up the memory, then most of them die out.
All of this takes about 5 minutes from when I login from gdm. Which is unacceptable (especially for xfce4).

As a result of what I read/documented I deleted everything in ~/.cache/sessions and also everything related to xfce4 in the home directory.

Still the problem is there.

Any ideas/suggestions?

djszapi · 2009-07-18 15:41:31

What's in your xorg ?

Here, Xorg was the problem too, by you ?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66435

tiberiur · 2009-07-19 13:04:53

Thanks man, but no, no Xorg problem (or if I remember one, I solved it a while ago).
Yes, I tried after deleting everything in ~/.config and ~/.cache and still the problem appears.

Anyway, due to the lack of time to deal with this annoying problem I solved in the following way:
#pacman -Rc xfce4
#pacman -Sy lxde

Life is beautifull, but a little sad I had to leave xfce.

Allan · 2009-07-19 13:36:32

I experienced this. To fix I had to turn of the saving session session on logout and then delete the session files (~/.config/sessions/ ???)

tiberiur · 2009-07-19 13:51:05

Did that also; a few times; and with no result.

scarecrow · 2009-07-19 13:53:02

You cannot seriously recommend LXDE as a replacement of XFCE4.
I had this once, but it was clearly my fault. I was using a wallpaper rotation script, which was not respawning xfdesktop properly.
Check into "session and startup" how many xfdesktop instances you have registered to run at login, and keep just one of them.

Last edited by scarecrow (2009-07-19 13:55:19)

tiberiur · 2009-07-19 14:15:50

I do not recommand anything, as I do not have enough experience with LXDE.
(At one point in history I had fluxbox, so I am pretty much used to minimal)
(The one thing I miss is the nice applet that alowed me to changed keyboard mappings and to see which one I was using at a given moment).

As about XFCE, I looked into session and startup part and there was always, but always only one xfdesktop instance.
Initially, I thought it was related to having an xfdesktop for the LVDS and one for the VGA, but it was not the case.

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#1 2009-07-17 08:13:42

xfce4.6 starts a dozen of xfdesktops out of nowhere

#2 2009-07-18 15:41:31

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