Strange behaviour when I login to XFCE [SOLVED]

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 09:57:11

I use XFCE as a DE and I have installed GNOME also. To select which DE I want every time I use gdm. But for a reason I cannot understand when I login to XFCE this is what happens: The XFCE desktop opens, then after 1.5 - 2 secs the GNOME desktop opens up! Then it closes an XFCE desktop opens up again. Note that when I say "the GNOME desktop opens up", I don't mean the panels too, I mean only the wallpaper an the desktop icons. I would ignore this problem but the thing is that I want conky to start when I login. And instead of starting in the XFCE desktop, it starts on the GNOME desktop and when the XFCE desktop starts again it's dissappeared...

Hope I didn't confuse you.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Last edited by Aventinus (2010-09-23 13:37:22)

toad · 2010-09-23 10:07:51

I know this strange behaviour as nothing more than a screen dump while the DE is loading and would therefore suggest that your conky does not start automatically when using LXDE.

Just a guess from my experience, ymmv...

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 10:13:51

Well just a minute ago I was testing various fonts and every time I loaded a font, for 0.5 sec the GNOME desktop appeared. And after 15 fonts changes the GNOME desktop stayed. What is goin on?

Fruity · 2010-09-23 10:26:53

Perhaps creating a fresh config file might help? Copy the old one first though,

mv ~/.config ~/.config~old

Then logout and back in. Just a thought..

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 10:45:11

Fruity wrote:

Perhaps creating a fresh config file might help? Copy the old one first though,
mv ~/.config ~/.config~old
Then logout and back in. Just a thought..

Nope, that didn't work. I lost all my settings but the problem still remains..

Fruity · 2010-09-23 11:05:40

Aventinus wrote:

Nope, that didn't work. I lost all my settings but the problem still remains..

Aww, but at least you can copy the old config file back

Could try to see if gdm is part of the problem, at least will narrow things down.. Edit .xinitrc in your users home directory, so it looks like

#!/bin/sh
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

Then save anything thats open, and " /etc/rc.d/gdm stop " as root, which should dump you back to a x-free prompt, and log you out, then login as a user, not root, and " startx ".

Very odd behaviour though, just throwing a few ideas out there.

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 12:22:01

Fruity wrote:

Aventinus wrote:
Nope, that didn't work. I lost all my settings but the problem still remains..
Aww, but at least you can copy the old config file back
Could try to see if gdm is part of the problem, at least will narrow things down.. Edit .xinitrc in your users home directory, so it looks like
#!/bin/sh
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
Then save anything thats open, and " /etc/rc.d/gdm stop " as root, which should dump you back to a x-free prompt, and log you out, then login as a user, not root, and " startx ".
Very odd behaviour though, just throwing a few ideas out there.

That didn't work either. Thanks for trying though..

Fruity · 2010-09-23 12:31:15

Are you using a window manager?

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 12:43:57

Fruity wrote:

Are you using a window manager?

I installed Compiz and thats when the problem started (damn, sorry, should have mentioned this earlier but I forgot). So I stop using it and unistalled it but the problem continues..

Army · 2010-09-23 12:48:16

Well I guess everybody uses at least a window manager! In case of XFCE this thing is called XFWM.

Aventinus · 2010-09-23 13:37:00

I kinda find a solution to the problem, although it is not the recomended one. I just unistalled GNOME. And the problem is solved or semi-solved...

Fruity · 2010-09-23 13:46:35

Army wrote:

Well I guess everybody uses at least a window manager! In case of XFCE this thing is called XFWM.

You dont say. For your benefit then, "Are you using a custom window manager". Hair + Split.

Aventinus, a config file somehwhere is interfering? How did you remove compiz? I'm guessing somethings been left over. Config files arent removed by pacman too. If it were me, I'd just remove xfce4 and then reinstall it, see if that fixed things, might just overwrite the file(s) causing the problem, bit of a bodge job method though. Perhaps someone else has a cleaner (and better!) Way.

Edit, just saw your last post, alls well that ends well.

Last edited by Fruity (2010-09-23 13:47:13)

Aventinus · 2010-09-25 18:38:23

For the record, I found out that the program causing the problem is dropbox.

toad · 2010-09-25 18:59:45

Care to elaborate? I've been using dropbox without a problem for ages...

Aventinus · 2010-09-25 21:56:36

toad wrote:

Care to elaborate? I've been using dropbox without a problem for ages...

Do you have XFCE?

toad · 2010-09-25 22:06:18

Just logged into it and it appears to be fine.

Aventinus · 2010-09-25 22:09:56

Well what happens is that when I login in XFCE, the moment that dropbox opens (I have it on startup apps), the GNOME desktop appears for just a second or two and then I'm back on the XFCE desktop. The only solution I have found is to remove GNOME.

jasonwryan · 2010-09-25 22:18:49

The wiki includes a description of how to install dropbox without nautilus:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox#Daemon

Aventinus · 2010-09-26 14:08:02

jasonwryan wrote:

The wiki includes a description of how to install dropbox without nautilus:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox#Daemon

Thanks for the link, although I chose another solution. I installed SpiderOak and it works great.

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Strange behaviour when I login to XFCE [SOLVED]

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