| Summary: | XFCE window manager not providing close/minimize buttons | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | William Shields <william.shields> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | bittwister2, marja11 |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | CVE: | ||
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Description
William Shields
2017-04-23 20:18:49 CEST
Just to clarify, the whole of the top bar containing the close/minimise buttons is missing. Thunar allows windows to be drag expanded but Libre Office & Claws Mail do not. Omitted from the original report, keyboard short cuts such as Alt/F4 to close a window do not work. (In reply to William Shields from comment #0) > > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > Mageia6 STA2 32 bit > > How reproducible: > Happens all the time since receiving an update a few days ago which > contained a couple of libxfce4* (sorry can't remember exactly which ones) > packages. Similar updates not seen on 64 bit version which continues to work > OK. > Can you try to find the updated XFCE and other packages from that day with e.g. rpm -qa --last | head -n100 (increase or decrease 100 so that the Xfce packages are included + all other packages that were updated on the same day), and then _attach_ that list to this bug report? _ CC:
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marja11 I cannot remember the exact date but all of the XFCE packages now appear on the date of my last reinstall (Sun 23 Apr 2017 17:50 BST). Here are other packages received (and as yet have not been replaced) during the period the problem started: libcaja-extension1-1.18.2-1.mga6.i586 Wed 19 Apr 2017 07:09:55 BST caja-schemas-1.18.2-1.mga6.noarch Wed 19 Apr 2017 07:09:54 BST mate-polkit-1.18.0-3.mga6.i586 Sun 16 Apr 2017 08:58:48 BST mageia-release-Default-6-0.17.mga6.i586 Sun 16 Apr 2017 08:58:47 BST mageia-release-common-6-0.17.mga6.i586 Sun 16 Apr 2017 08:58:47 BST libaudit1-2.7.5-1.mga6.i586 Sat 15 Apr 2017 07:30:30 BST libgusb2-0.2.10-1.mga6.i586 Sat 15 Apr 2017 07:30:29 BST libappstream-glib8-0.6.12-1.mga6.i586 Sat 15 Apr 2017 07:30:28 BST appstream-glib-i18n-0.6.12-1.mga6.noarch Sat 15 Apr 2017 07:30:28 BST I hesitate to throw this into the mix as I cannot reliably recreate it but it might ring some bells with someone. I have managed to get a fully working XFCE session on 3 occasions, the sequence being, - Boot the machine (laptop) - Start a MATE session and run some applications - Logout of the MATE session - On the LightDM screen change to an XFCE session - Login - Error 'Session failed to start' - Try again and a working XFCE session starts If no one else has had this problem perhaps it is something peculiar to my set up. Would you like me to reinstall STA2 XFCE from the live DVD and see whether I still have the problem? (In reply to William Shields from comment #3) > If no one else has had this problem perhaps it is something peculiar to my > set up. Would you like me to reinstall STA2 XFCE from the live DVD and see > whether I still have the problem? Before doing that, might I suggest creating a test account, say junk, and log out of your account and into junk just to prove it is not a system wide problem but just a user problem. If junk has the same problem as your user account you know it is a system wide problem. CC:
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bittwister2 Thank you for that suggestion. Logging in from a different account does start a proper XFCE session. So, a problem with the configuration in my usual account then. I have copied the ~/.config/xfce4 directory from my other laptop running 64 bit XFCE and hey presto my account now starts a proper XFCE session. I have not had a chance yet to look at the differences in set up but I am pretty sure that I have not explicitly changed any configuration settings myself recently. Is there anywhere in particular I should look? (In reply to William Shields from comment #5) > I have copied the ~/.config/xfce4 directory from my other laptop running > 64 bit XFCE and hey presto my account now starts a proper XFCE session. I would not recommend that unless Xfce release/version are the same. > I have not had a chance yet to look at the differences in set up but I am > pretty sure that I have not explicitly changed any configuration settings > myself recently. Is there anywhere in particular I should look? It is possible you did not make any changes but the problem was caused when you did not wipe ~/.config as requested by an Xfce update. Your Xfce Desktop can also become corrupt by something in ~/.cache. I always turn off save session yet upon login previous autostart applications would be launched even though I had wiped ~/.config. Both my laptops were rebuilt completely from STA2 live ISOs so hopefully they will be same XFCE release/version. I have reinstated my original ~/.config/xfce4 and now XFCE works perfectly with that set up. Unless you have any other suggestions I do not think any more useful information can be gleaned as to what might have originally caused the problem. Thank you for your assistance. Status:
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