Problem with xfce4 Desktop

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m.parthiban

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Hi all,

Here's the story of my problem :

I am having Xfce4.2.3.2 and Gnome sessions installed in Fedora Core 3 .When i using my xfce session suddenly i am getting Gnome Desktop.
That is with that three icons(Computer,shortcut to home directory and trash) but xfce panel remains .

When i right click it in desktop i'm getting the popup which will appear in Gnome session instead of Xfce popup.When i logout and login i am getting the xfce screens.

what is my problem ?. Please tell me how to solve it .

Thanks
 

JGuru

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@m.parthiban, Open the Terminal Window & give us the output of :

$ ps -ef | grep nautilus

You need to kill those nautilus process.
 

eddie

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This is why I SOOOOOO HATE nautilus. You start a single instance of this thing and it just wants to take over everything...grrr...
 
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m.parthiban

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Orginally posted by : JGuru
@m.parthiban, Open the Terminal Window & give us the output of :

$ ps -ef | grep nautilus

You need to kill those nautilus process.

Thanks mate , when i type that command i am getting the following output:
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500       3401  3382  0 08:19 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nautilus

I don't know what to do next .Can u please explain ?
 

JGuru

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@m.parthiban, You have to kill the Gnome Display Manager(GDM), for that run this command:

$ ps-ef | grep gdm

Your output will look similar to this one.

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[b]
[color=blue]root      5741[/color]     1  0 06:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
[color=blue]root      5742[/color]  5741  0 06:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
[color=blue]root      5751[/color]  5742  4 06:11 tty7     00:01:48 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7[/b]
jguru    7681  6557  0 06:54 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gdm

NOTE: In your case the PID numbers will vary!!

The syntax for killing any Process is 'kill PID' where PID is a number

$ su -
(Enter password)

# kill 5741

# kill 5742

# kill 5751

# exit

This should solve your problem.
 
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mehulved

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m.parthiban said:
Thanks mate , when i type that command i am getting the following output:
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500       3401  3382  0 08:19 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nautilus

I don't know what to do next .Can u please explain ?
This means nautilus isn't running. Otherwise you would have got one more process with the name nautilus.
 

mediator

Technomancer
^^ Correct nautilus isn't running. Thats the O/P of the grep command!

Neways It might be a bug in FC3.
 

JGuru

Wise Old Owl
@Prakash, The command you have given doesn't produce any output, even though I'm running GNOME!!

But following one works fine.

$ ps -ef | grep gnome*
 
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m.parthiban

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Orginally posted by : JGuru @m.parthiban, You have to kill the Gnome Display Manager(GDM), for that run this command:

$ ps-ef | grep gdm

Yes , i am getting similar output as you have mentioned
Here is the output:
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root      4338     1  0 00:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root      4368  4338  0 00:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root      4377  4368  2 00:59 ?        00:00:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt8
500       4624  4538  0 01:07 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gdm


and i also killed as you said but when i kill any of the the process xfce is restarting immediately .

When i check after restarted again the same processes are running. So what should i do ?
 

praka123

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JGuru said:
@Prakash, The command you have given doesn't produce any output, even though I'm running GNOME!!

But following one works fine.

$ ps -ef | grep gnome*

i mean,am sorry the correct one 2 try is:
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ps  -ax  |grep gnome*
as already ur post is also doing the same.:)

paarthipan try this and post the o/p.
 

JGuru

Wise Old Owl
@m.parthiban, From your output it's very clear that when XFCE session starts, GNOME session(GDM) also starts!!
@Eddie, I think you can shed some light on this one.
 
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m.parthiban

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Originally posted by : prakash kerala
paarthipan try this and post the o/p.

Output i got:
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ps  -ax  |grep gnome*
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
 3340 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep gnome*

Originally posted by : JGuru
@Eddie, I think you can shed some light on this one.

What u mean ? Sorry, I cannot get you.
 

praka123

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@paarthipan:
so no gnome stuffs are running;only gdm in "Xfce DE".so i think you need to purge gdm and dependencies and may be instead use xdm as desktop manager.
 
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