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XFCE desktop slow start with various window managers #223982

Closed nat-418 closed 5 months ago

nat-418 commented 1 year ago

Description

When using certain window managers like bspwm and fvwm, xfdesktop and xfce4-panel are slow to start on login.

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Enable XFCE desktop
  2. Enable bspwm window manager
  3. Log in with xfce+bspwm session

Expected behavior

XFCE panel and desktop should start immediately.

Additional context

I have fixed this problem by disabling the enableDesktop option and manually installing xfce.xfdesktop and xfce.xfce4-panel. I then execute them with the --disable-wm-check flag and everything works normally.

Adding the above flag resolves this issue when using non-xfwm window managers. I just don't know how to modify the option code and make a PR to do it myself. If that flag could be added to the xfdesktop and panel start when a non-xfwm window manager session is launched, it would fix this bug.

Notify maintainers

@teams.xfce.members: @romildo @muscaln

tom8347 commented 1 year ago

I'm having the exact same issue. What exactly did you do for your workaround? If I don't enable the xfce desktop and instead just download the panel and desktop manager, then launch them from a bare none+bspwm session (for example starting them from the bspwmrc) then the panel is broken - unable to add items and changes to settings don't persist after reboot etc.

nat-418 commented 1 year ago

I'm having the exact same issue. What exactly did you do for your workaround? If I don't enable the xfce desktop and instead just download the panel and desktop manager, then launch them from a bare none+bspwm session (for example starting them from the bspwmrc) then the panel is broken - unable to add items and changes to settings don't persist after reboot etc.

I put these lines at the end of my bspwmrc :

xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check
xfdesktop --disable-wm-check