On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:32:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, RedShift wrote:
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> > Did you log out and back in after you reinstalled xfwm4?
> 
> No; I just quit xfce4 and ran "startx" once back at the console.
> 
> Was the issue that a startup script wasn't run?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

My guess was that some parts of your environment were missing that xfwm
required to run properly. A login/out would have reread your
/etc/profile, and included the needed environment variables.

Gteetings,
Jesse

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