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Old 01-21-2021, 08:41 AM   #1
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xfce broken after attempting a reset


I was having some graphical glitches on my Slackware 14.2 system. I thought maybe resetting the windows manager, so I ran

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xfce4-panel -r && xfwm4 --replace
This turned out to be very unwise - my windows manager is basically non-functional. The top bar is gone, I can't interact with it via alt-tab or ctrl-alt-arrow, the desktop is black....I can get a terminal (so I can get firefox), but if I open a terminal with firefox open, the terminal covers the browser (maybe that's an issue with the "focus")....

If I could roll back the configuration, that would be perfect, but at this point I would take a complete reset over this.

UPDATE: rm -r ~/.config/xfce4 has no effect. Meaning that xfce does indeed reset (I get the "default setup or one panel" option), but everything else is the same - no top bar, no alt-tab, no control of windows of any kind.
Any suggestions?

Last edited by thethinker; 01-21-2021 at 08:58 AM. Reason: Adding update to the problem
 
Old 01-21-2021, 09:11 AM   #2
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Ok, I fixed it - sorry for the thread if people have spent time on this issue. This computer is mission critical, so I just panicked a bit.

The actual windows manager was not running, so just getting

xfcw4

into a command line is what was needed.

(Actually, it's not *this* simple - as soon as a did terminal-firefox-terminal I lost the ability to write in the terminal. So I had to restart, rm -r ~/.config/xfce4, then terminal-restart xwfm4.)
 
  


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