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. > >_______________________________________________ >luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
