<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> On Sunday 24 June 2012 10:31:00 xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:07:06 +0000 (UTC) > From: newcontact@comcast.net > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: [xubuntu-users] xwindow / xfcr crashing in 12.04? > Message-ID: > <110202835.1377751.1340381226040.JavaMail.root@sz0149a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > I clean-installed xubuntu 12.04 two months ago, and everything is running perfect until last night. I always turned off my machine every night to save electricity, but when I started up my desktop this morning xwindow and/or xfcr4 is not working properly (please see the enclosed screen shoot for an illustration) > > * the titlebars of all the windows (terminal, firefox, any x-applications) are gone > * previously I set the background of the xfce4 panel to be transparent; now it's solid > * previously I set two workspace, but the workspace widget now shows just one, and it does not show any of the x-applications that is currently running (I did check settings-->workspace and its says that I have two workspace, but under "name of workspace" it only says "1" -- it used to say "1" and "2", I believe) > * I can no longer press-down-alt-and-right-click-mouse to change the size of an existing x-window > * I used noscript in firefox, but when I right click the mouse to adjust permission, I do see the right-click menu but as soon as I move the mouse pointer the right-click menu is gone! Interesting enough, I don't have this problem in google chrome > * when I click on an x-window that's under another x-window, it no longer pops up to the top. > > These are the main issues I've noticed so far; there might be others I have not yet noticed. You can see the first three issues in the enclosed screen shoot. > > I don't remember doing anything unusual last night before I turned off the machine -- it was a clean shutdown (via logout menu), I did check for system update and there was none. But there were signs of x/xfc4 not working properly -- I used to have a xdaliclock clock running on the top left hand corner, but a couple of weeks ago that went haywire -- it started showing up literally in the middle of the screen! It might have happened after a update but I did not keep track of it. After fiddding with it it, I thought it was an issue with xdaliclock and I let it slided. Maybe not... > > I tried to restart xfce4 but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I do not mind deleting the current xfce profile/setting and redo that again, but I really can't afford the time to reinstall the machine (project deadline...) > > Any suggestions on what's the cause and how to fix it? Right now the only way I can close an x-window is to ctrl-alt-F1 to console and kill it by hand, and the rest of the system is barely useable (for reasons I outlined above). > > I love xubuntu -- I will never go back to unity! -- your help is most appreciative. > > THANKS! > > Hi, have had the problem under earlier versions of Xubuntu. Solved it somehow in the way that I was recreating my user profile or reinstalling xfce4. If this doesn't help, You should try to reinstall. This is not a general bug, but should be just an coincidently happening mistake during the installation. Most of all, if it was running on earlier releases of Xubuntu. </body></html>