# Window Manager (xfwm4) for xfce4 failing

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**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/window-manager-xfwm4-for-xfce4-failing/940 "2020-05-29T16:18:46Z")\
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OK, then I would try to get Paraview to work _within_ an XFCE desktop manually to triage. Indeed any `vglrun` command withing the desktop may shed light on this. Maybe MATE may not be the right path yet, as it could be heavy lift to migrate this.

If a plain XFCE desktop works, then trying to get `vglrun paraview` to boot manually within that desktop session would be our best bet to troubleshoot. That way we replicate the environment of the job, have a good `$DISPLAY` already set and so on.

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