On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:55:18AM +0200, Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works > > > as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are no panels > > > and no mouse buttons result in any menus. I am using kdm. > > > > > > I tried removeing .config and .cache but something still seems to be > > > wrong. > > > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions what the problem might be? > > > > maybe there is something in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession that is > > conflicting? hmmm... does kdm even look at these though? > > I don't see either in ~/ > > Strange. With a newly created user it works fine. Logon using kdm, I can > start kde and xfce sessions fine. > > The home directory of the user with the problem is old and full of all sorts > of .* directories and files. > well, the most obvious thing is that some config is corrupted and interfering. Dig through those . files. or debug it some more by starting up with startx or startxfce4 and see if you can diagnose it some more... IOW take kdm out of the mix for now and see what happens. .02 A
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