I am not sure if an update did it, I do not recall playing with the window manager, but I notice that there are no titlebars and no min/max buttons.
I killed xfwm4 but it instantly restarts back with the same parameters.
I searched for solutions on the net. Someone said I should delete .cache/sessions/xfce*. But I do not have any such files in that dir. I had xfwm4* files and I deleted them. No effect.
Another solution suggests linking /usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.3 to libxfconf-0.so.2.0.0 instead of the current libxfconf-0.so.3.0.0. Before I try all this, I thought I will post the question in this forum.
Anyone has any idea what is going on?
My EOS is fully updated to the current versions of everything.
Iām running XFCE as well - and having no such difficulties (on multiple Arch-based machines - an Arco, 2 Arch, 2 EndeavourOS - and on others as well. Iāve not heard of this!
I would start out by trying some re-theming - as titlebars and window buttons are handled separately from the āmainā theme. I donāt know how familiar you are with XFCE, but the themes to check out are chosen from the Window Manager in settings, rather than in Appearance. Perhaps you could let us know what you have chosen for that, and we could check if if it has problems for us tooā¦
I figure always to start with the simplest stuff first - it so often ends up being less work!
@sanjaychak01 It was me proposing that as a solution, but that was a temporary fix until xfce released a fix for that bug. but that was 1 year ago. Iāve deleted that symlink not long after creating it, as it was not needed anymore because the official fixes worked.
try launching a program (that exhibits the problems you have mentioned) through terminal and check out the output. You can start searching a fix based on that output.
Well - it might be corrupted, or something else might have happened to it - so I would start out by trying out some alternatives to see if your missing parts come back. Removing and reinstalling some packages might be in order once we have more of a handle on itā¦
Chromium shows the min/max buttons. But does not respond to double clicking. I guess there is no title bar of the application, but just the tabs bar, where the buttons are.