Re: XFCE weirdness

From: Nathan England <nathan@paysonlinux.org>
> I built all the X.org packages and all the required XFCE packages and
> everything built and installed properly.

You didn't use your distro's package manager? It's always better to use the
package manager if there is one; it makes your life *A LOT* simpler.

> I started X by running startx, which loads twm and several xterm windows,
the
> clock, and it works just fine. However, when I replace the twm stuff in my
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file with startxfce4, XFCE starts up just fine, but I

> cannot move any windows!

The window manager almost certainly hasn't started. I don't know what XFCE's
default window manager is, but it probably isn't running. Once the DE has
been loaded, try "kwin --replace" (or twm, or metacity, or whatever) and see
what if anything that does. The script for XFCE should be doing this
automatically. If it isn't, time to get debugging....

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