[mythtv-users] Backend window manager messed up

[Damian]

On 09/03/2015 17:51, Damian wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 12:11, Rob wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk
>> <mailto:myth at surr.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     I'm running MythBuntu on my home server's backend. The server is in
>>     the garage and I access it via primarily via VNC.
>>
>>     For a few weeks now, the window manager (Xfce) has been messed up.
>>     When I log into VNC, it looks 'kind of' like it usually does, but
>>     there's no visible panel at the top (although I think that's just
>>     because other windows are in front of it rather than below it) and
>>     the other windows on screen (Firefox, SpiderOak, TeamViewer etc)
>>     don't have a top bar. The bar that you use to move, close, maximise
>>     and minimise a window. Those top bars are simply not there.
>>
>>     Most things seem to be working ok with the server. The MythTV
>>     backend is functioning fine. My music server (Logitec Media Server)
>>     is working fine. I seem to remember that Dropbox stopped working,
>>     for some reason, a week or two before this problem started, but I
>>     didn't worry too much about that.
>>
>>     So, it's household function is 'OK', but I can't do anything else on
>>     the machine because the GUI is messed up.
>>
>>     Do you lovely people have any idea how to fix this?
>>
>>
>> Try logging in via ssh and either deleting or moving the directory that
>> stores XFCE's desktop configuration.  It's been a while since I've
>> played with that environment, but my be is that it's either ~/.xfce or
>> some combination of ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 ~/.gconf ~/.gconf2
>>
>
> OK, here's what I've tried in an attempt to narrow down the problem ...
>
> Before and after each of these lines, I've done:
> sudo stop lightdm
> sudo start lightdm
> and then tried to log in via VNC to see if there's any difference.
>
> mv /home/gingerserver/.gnome2 /home/gingerserver/.gnome2-x
> .. didn't fix it
>
> mv /home/gingerserver/.gconf /home/gingerserver/.gconf-x
> .. didn't fix it
>
> mv /etc/lightdm /etc/lightdm-x
> .. VNC wouldn't work after this
>
> I copied eveeything back to the original files, then homed in on the 
> lightdm directory ...
>
> mv lightdm.conf lightdm.conf-x
> .. couldn't connect after this
>
> mv lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-x
> .. didn't fix
>
> mv lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf-x
> .. didn't fix
>
> mv mythbuntu-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf 
> mythbuntu-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-x
> .. didn't fix
>
> mv users.conf users.conf-x
> .. didn't fix
>
> So, I thought that I had potentially narrowed the problem down to the 
> lightdm.conf file.
>
> However, the contents of that seem to be ...
>
> [SeatDefaults]
> autologin-guest=false
> autologin-user=homeserver
> autologin-user-timeout=0
> autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
> greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
> user-session=mythbuntu
>
> That all seems quite innocent.
>
> Can anyone see anything here that points to anything?
>
> Thanks,
> Damian

It's sorted!

rm -r ~/.cache/sessions

was the command that fixed it.

Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of it everyone!

Cheers,
Damian
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