On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:19 -0600
Aaron Konstam <akons...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> This happened in F15 and I thought I was just ignorant.
> Now that it has happened again in F16 I realize it is a software
> problem.
> When Gnome is configured for a user and then the user tries to use
> Xfce they find that the Xfce is corrupted in various ways. Namely:

What do you mean by 'gnome is configured for a user' ? 
They logged in with gnome? something else?

> 1. when Firefox is run the top menu choices can not be used. You click
> on Edit for example and you see the Edit menu, When you move the
> cursor down the menu and the menu disappears.

Sounds like a window manager focus issue... 

> 2. Gnome display image bleeds into Xfce.

display image? Not sure what you mean here... 

> 3. Evolution after awhile has the same problem as Firefox.
> 4. Running the Software Update program causes the update window to be
> so large that you can't see the options like "Install" at the bottom
> of the window, 

Whats your screen resolution? 

> 5. You can't set up multiple workspaces.
> etc., etc and so forth.

What happens when you try and do so?

> In F15 the corruptions were slightly different. Foe example the menu
> you got when you clicked on the Desktop was the Gnome menu not the
> Xfce menu.
> Other strange things happened like you get a view of the home
> directory immediately when you log in to Xfce,
> 
> It would be interesting to hear whether others have seen similar
> effects.

It sounds like somehow you have had metacity take over for xfwm4. 
Can you open up a terminal and run a 'ps aux' and see which window
manager is running? 

xfwm4 --replace &

and then logging out and back on to save the session with xfwm4 running
might help?

kevin

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