[ubuntu-studio-users] possible compositing manager failure

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:01 +0100, David King wrote:
>I have tried different desktop environment of plain XFCE instead of 
>Ubuntu Studio Session, and it fails just the same.
>
>I logged in as a Guest, and that worked okay, no problems at all. So
>it must be a problem for my own user account only.

So you always used different flavours of Xfce4, but alway running xfwm4?
The command wmctrl -m shows you what WM actually is running [1].

Any file named ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log or ~/.xsession-errors
available? If so, do they include anything related to the issue? First
read and google before sending a request regarding log files.

Did you try move xfconf?

First test just moving xfwm4.xml.

$ mv -i ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml ~/xfwm4.xml.backup

After moving log out and in.

If needed try moving xfconf completely.

$ mv -i ~/xfwm4.xml.backup ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
$ mv -i ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/ ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf.backup

After moving log out and in. Note, I don't have Xfce4 installed for my
Ubuntu, so I don't have access to it and can verify the hints I give.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
$ sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install wmctrl
$ wmctrl -m