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Old 03-21-2018, 08:28 AM   #1
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Unhappy Xfce4 Session freezing, cant shutdown, NON PERMANENT(?)


Hey, im sorry to bother you people and im sorry for my bad english. Usually i dont do this kind of forum posts and strife to resolve my issues by myself, but im striking a brick wall right now, so here is the problem:

I run Manjaro Xfce4 on my Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro , my DM is LightDM (i dont know if that matters) and i have experienced a lot of problems regarding my session manager... Usually you can always open up a dropdown terminal in xfce4 with ctrl+alt+T and everything is working just fine... But at some point of my Working-session this kinda things are happening:
1. Cant exit my Vim modes with esc
2. Cant open up the dropdownterminal or normal terminals with shortcuts (in fact i cant use any keyboard shortcuts at all)
3. when i try to shut down my pc it does nothing , when i retry it tells me that the session manager must be in idle state...

i really dont know how to fix it because i have no hecking clue what is causing this problem and where i should look to find it out... When i tryed tailing the xsession-errors file i could not replicate the error at all

If someone ever experienced this issue i would be so grateful to have myself helped!

Kind Regards
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PS: Just comment what files you would like to have a look at... as i just said i have no idea where to even look (and no idea if xsession-errors is even the right place where i would find my issue... maybe its logged in /var/logs ?)
 
Old 03-22-2018, 01:07 PM   #2
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Sounds like a "profile issue" w\some key Xfce settings.hist

I suggest a clean Xfce "experience" be applied and then if it happens again,
due diligence on some logs.

At Login screen:
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and at the login prompt, issue your usual username and password.
One you are logged in, issue

Code:
mv ~/.config ~/.config.bak
mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf.bak
exit
Back at a Login prompt:
Ctrl+Alt+F7 (may also be F8) or simple reboot.

Your Xfce desktop will be a "default experience".

Or the "candlestick method"...
Create a new user and login as the user.
Test. Observe. Report.
 
  


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