Yesterday I updated my wheezy system and when I restarted my machine this morning all my xfce windows had lost their frames. There as no longer a close button or a top border I could use to move the window around. The programs within the windows worked fine, though. But it's kind of limiting not being able to move windows out of the way or minimize them. I hope xfce isn't going the way of gnome and becoming unusable. I'm all in favour of simplicity, but... As Einstein said, things should be as simple as possible but no simpler.
But the story doesn't end there. It gets worse. This morning I upgraded again. Now I have a brand-new kernel (3.1.something). Booting with it gives me a login screen with only a space for my user name (as in the old, old days) but does not respond to keyboard input not mouse activity. I can't log in. I rebooted using the laptop's power key, and used grub to choose the old kernel (version 3.0.something) and got a login screen with a user name already filled in and a slot to enter a password (the way things were yesterday) and I could log in. But I still get the frameless xfce. Sorry not to be more specific about the kernel version, but if I start an xterm to run uname, I'll lose the ability to access the window into which I'm typing this message. I'm going to hold off upgrading my other wheezy machines for a while. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jaj5kn$cr8$1...@dough.gmane.org
