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| ====== Mint 13 Xfce Breifings ====== | ====== Mint 13 Xfce Breifings ====== | ||
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| I prefer Mint 13 xfce because it works better with older hardware-- **without** needing to be re-configured to such an extend that I would be creating my own sub-distribution of a Linux distro. | I prefer Mint 13 xfce because it works better with older hardware-- **without** needing to be re-configured to such an extend that I would be creating my own sub-distribution of a Linux distro. | ||
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| **To set everything right, use the following steps:** | **To set everything right, use the following steps:** | ||
| - | * Using the program Menu, open the "Terminal Emulator" window (a.k.a. a Terminal window) | + | On the PCs that I am now loading, the "Fix Xfce Desktop" script can be used. |
| - | * Copy & paste the following command into this window (then press the "Enter" key to run that) | + | * Using the program **Menu**, open the "**File Manager**", then go to the "**File System**" directory. |
| - | <code>xfwm4 --replace</code> | + | * Double-Click on "**Fix_Xfce_Desktop.sh**" to run the desktop restore/reset script. |
| - | Note: the above command includes a "double hyphen" dash. | + | * Using the program **Menu**, select "**Log Out**", then ensure "**Save session for future logins**" is checked when clicking "**Reboot**". |
| - | * Now log out of Mint with "Save session for future logins" checked. | + | |
| - | **If the above has not fixed the problem when the system reboots, then use the following (longer) procedure:**\\ | + | On PCs that do not have the above script, see the full restore/reset instructions at: |
| - | Note: both the below commands also includes a "double hyphen" dash. | + | [[kb:linux:xfcedesktoperror | When the Xfce Desktop "Behaves Badly"]] |
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| - | * Using the program Menu, open the "Terminal Emulator" window (a.k.a. a Terminal window) | + | |
| - | * Copy & paste the following command into this window (then press the "Enter" key to run that) | + | |
| - | <code>xfwm4 --sm-client-disable</code> | + | |
| - | * Open the Application Finder by pressing the "Alt" and the "F2" keys at the same time | + | |
| - | * Copy & paste the following command into this window (then press the "Enter" key to run that) | + | |
| - | <code>xfwm4 --replace</code> | + | |
| - | * Finally, log out of Mint with "Save session for future logins" checked. | + | |
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| - | For further information about this see: [[http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5778 | [Solved] startup xfce4 xfwm problems?]] & [[http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7382 | xfwm4 in Xfce 4.10 behaving badly?]] | + | |
| ===== Mint 13 Xfce Updates ===== | ===== Mint 13 Xfce Updates ===== | ||
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| {{tag>kb:solved kb:mint13 kb:xfce kb:updates kb:audio kb:wifi }} | {{tag>kb:solved kb:mint13 kb:xfce kb:updates kb:audio kb:wifi }} | ||
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