Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> Friends,
>
> For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not.
> I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo,
> but not for my user.
>
> Or, really, what happens is, it seems to start (can find processes and kill them),
> but no window appears. It seems to hang.
>
> I tried to use gdb, but get no debug information.
> What happens there is the whole thing (gdb and pcmanfm) hangs,
> doing nothing, until I kill pcmanfm again, and gdb tells me nothing.
>
> When I run it from terminal, likewise, I find no errors, nothing.
> Just hangs (even if I run the command with pcmanfm &, it just hangs the
> terminal).
> For all other users on the machine, it runs fine.
> I'm at a loss for what else to do to diagnose the problem,
> and, of course, at this juncture, I have no useful information for why
> it is not running properly.
>
> Yes, also, of course, I have killalled any such processes several times
> before trying to start it again.
> I've also tried with other WMs (I use openbox as a standalone, but have
> also now tried with LXDE and with wmii, and still no joy. Have no other
> WMs on the system at this time).
> This is on wheezy.
>
> I've even tried replacing my conf files in
> ~/.config/pcmanfm/{default,LXDE}/pcmanfm.conf
> with the files from another user (and chowning them to me, of course),
> to determine if there were something amiss in my config files,
> but, alas, this too proved unproductive.
> I don't know what else to do.
>
I'm still having this issue here.
So far, nobody has suggested anything than what I've already done.
Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's
absolutely nothing relevant there.
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