[xubuntu-users] I have a similar problem involving kalarm, mythtv, and the screen saver.

[blind Pete]

Replying to myself, sorry.  

Restarting Xfwm4 or starting another window manager, like compiz, 
is the only thing that seems to work.  the Compiz Fusion Icon 
gives an easy way to do either.  

bP

blind Pete wrote:

> No, I had not tried it.  It is off now, let's see what happens.  I had
> vague plans to change to compiz because of its brilliant /ezoom/ feature,
> which might make all of this irrelevent.
> 
> BTW, did you know that you are starting a new thread with each of
> your replies - and one of them has you name spelt differently.
> 
> Also, you like to top post, which is generally against the convention
> around here.
> 
> Thank you,
> bP
> 
> m. nease wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried disabling and re-enabling Compositor (Settings Manager >
>> Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor)?  I /think/ that's how I resolved a
>> similar problem in Precise.
>> 
>> On 10/01/2014 05:00 AM,
>> xubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>>> I have a similar problem involving kalarm, mythtv, and the screen saver.

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