Problem with xfce4 Desktop

[m.parthiban]

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

[mediator]

Thats strange! Why don't u upgrade the distro?? FC6 is out!

[mehulved]

Are you opening any GNOMe application? Specially nautilius.

[JGuru]

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

$ ps -ef | grep nautilus

You need to kill those nautilus process.

[eddie]

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

[m.parthiban]

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:

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 ?

[praka123]

dont blame Nautilus for that.i think ur gnome-session is running also same time.

[JGuru]

@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.

root      5741     1  0 06:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root      5742  5741  0 06:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root      5751  5742  4 06:11 tty7     00:01:48 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
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.

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by m.parthiban

Thanks mate , when i type that command i am getting the following output:

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]

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

Neways It might be a bug in FC3.

[praka123]

check whether any gnome* runs:

#ps -ax |grep gnome*

[JGuru]

@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*

[m.parthiban]

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:

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 ?

[mediator]

Try to update xfce as root => "yum -y update xfce*"

[praka123]

Originally Posted by JGuru

@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:

ps  -ax  |grep gnome*

as already ur post is also doing the same.

paarthipan try this and post the o/p.

[JGuru]

@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.

[m.parthiban]

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

Output i got:

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]

@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.