On 2 October 2021 17:42:04 GMT+10:00, Rodney Brown via luv-main 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>After a reboot, I lost the Window manager, so no frame, title, minimize, 
>maximize or close buttons.
>
>Lots of ineffectual thrashing around with a Ctrl-Alt-F1 console 
>sessions, system-ctrl session manager restarts.
>
>xfwm4 --replace provided a window manager, but mouse issues left it 
>uncomfortable.
>
>It might have been possible to use another console session and lynx or 
>w3m to google around, but I was glad of another machine to google with...

I would install a separate lightweight wm (eg i3 or openbox) to get gui for 
debugging.

>
>Finally the right search terms found the advice that a damaged, cached 
>session could cause this. The recommended rm fixed the problem.
>
>I don't know whether this is relevant to other session manager/window 
>manager combinations.
>
>rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/
>

Thanks for sharing.

>
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