Xfce batch connect apps start with blank screen

[james-s-willis (James Willis)]

Hi,

My batch connect vnc apps have just recently stopped working. The job starts and when I click launch app the vnc session starts with a blank screen:

The output.txt: output.txt (3.0 KB)

shows a display starts on :3 but xfce-panel is trying to start on :0:

xfce4-panel: No window manager registered on screen 0. To start the panel without this check, run with --disable-wm-check.

as if the xfwm4 --compositor=off --sm-client-disable & command is failing somehow.

It looks similar to Window Manager (xfwm4) for xfce4 failing , but this only happens to me. I have tried logging in as different users and they don’t have the issue. I thought it was a problem with my account so I cleared out XFCE config directories in ~/.config/xfce4 but this still didn’t help.

In addition I can launch a XFCE desktop app and run Paraview without any issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my launch script for reference:

script.sh.txt (1.4 KB)

Thanks,

James

[james-s-willis (James Willis)]

I was finally able to fix this by renaming all of the directories/files in my HOME directory that started with .:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -name ‘.*_backup’ -exec bash -c ‘echo mv “$0” “${0%_backup}”’ {} ;

and I can now run batch connect vnc apps again. There must have been a corrupt configuration file somewhere.