[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#461975: Bug#461975: xfwm4: switching to console makes wm unusable

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:22:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:31:16PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:20:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > Switching to console and back breaks the wm. Programs seem to be
> > > working, but most keyboard or mouse actions fail. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
> > > works though. This doesn't happen with other wm's (ex. icewm).
> > 
> > > I can provide more info if needed.
> > 
> > You are going to have to I'm afraid.  I haven't seen any reports from
> > any other users of this and given it's a large failure we'd expect them.
> > 
> > For instance it works fine for me.
> > 
> > But I don't really know what to suggest to diagnose it.
> > 
> > If you restart the X session does it always then come back for you?
> 
> Yes, if I 'startx' it works as it should, until the next time I switch 
> vt's. Hhhm, let me try with a different user ... seems to be settings 
> related as it doesn't happen with another user. I also renamed the 
> .config dir and now it works again. I will start migrating my settings 
> one file at a time and will post back.

Ok, this is spooky. After migrating most of my customizations to a fresh 
.config and not finding anything I brought back the old one, but the bug 
did not reappear. Please tag unreproducible or close at will.

Sorry for the noise,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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