Solved by rebooting... I think xfwm4 was simply not being started. Why it took a reboot to cause that I don't know, since by exiting X I would have expected it to start the window manager.
I suppose a quick inspection of the initialization scripts will answer this question for me. Thanks anyway, Michael On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I was running out of space yesterday so I removed what I thought were some > unnecessary packages. Not thinking clearly, I removed xfwm4, thinking that my > window manager is xfce4, and that I didn't need xfwm4. > > When I rebooted, my familiar xfce4 X server started, and my task bar with my > various applets seemed ok. But when I invoked an xterm I didn't get the top > bar > that let's me maximize/minimize and most importantly move around the window. > It was then that I noticed that my virtual desktop switcher was missing, so I > knew I had broken something. > > A quick google taught me that xfwm4 is the window manager for xfce4, so I was > wrong to remove it. No problem, a quick pacman -S got that. > > However, the window manager doesn't seem to be active, even after shutting > down and restart my X server. > > Having removed it, is there something I need to do to activate it? > > Thanks in advance, > Michael _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
