Re: [SOLVED -- sort of] Unwanted application autostarting at login with XFCE
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:48:48 -0400 (EDT), Joel Rees wrote:
>
> I also sometimes get applications I had closed coming back when I log back in.
>
> XFCE sometimes gets its states wedged.
>
> There is a command I sometimes used to use to reset the wedged state
> when the title/menubar disappeared. I'm not remembering it right now.
> I'm wondering whether it might have worked for this case, as well. I
> think it was
>
> xfwm4 --replace
>
> (This is not really the purpose of the command, as I understand it,
> but it seems to clear out some of the wedged stuff. See xfwm4 --help
> for more information.)
I tried it. It locked up my whole X session! I had to switch to a text
console and restart lightdm with
/etc/init.d/lightdm restart
to recover. And it didn't solve the problem. As soon as I reinstalled
abiword, it started autostarting again at each login. Thanks for trying.
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.''`. Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
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