# XFCE Windowing Issue With Interactive Apps

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/xfce-windowing-issue-with-interactive-apps/2647>\
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**Created:** [April 19, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/xfce-windowing-issue-with-interactive-apps/2647 "2023-04-19T19:48:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/xfce-windowing-issue-with-interactive-apps/2647/2 "2023-04-19T20:33:48Z")

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There is some issue in the way we wrote our apps and RHEL/8. Your OOD version has no affect on this issue.

From the looks of your `before.sh.erb` you may have already seen these topics. I had to sprinkle in some `sleep` commands here and there. The last post on the MATLAB topic may be of interest too, it doesn’t have sleeps but also has `eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)` which may be important in this context.

> [@Problems with interactive Matlab app window](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/problems-with-interactive-matlab-app-window/2476):
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> Hello, I’m having trouble getting the expected behavior with the window in a Matlab interactive app. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! My problem appears similar to the issue described in [Matlab window problem](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/matlab-window-problem/2294): the standard window features don’t work, i.e. the window won’t resize, min/max/close buttons are missing. However, I’m seeing different errors in the log. I’m using a simplified version of OSC’s script.sh.erb from the [OSC/bc\_osc\_matlab GitHub repo](https://github.com/OSC/bc_osc_matlab/blob/master/template/script.sh.erb): #!/usr/bin/env bash # …

> [@App doesn't have desktop background](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/app-doesnt-have-desktop-background/2493):
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> I’ve got two ondemand systems, an old one and a new one. The old one is version 1.6.25-1.el7, the new one is 2.0.29-1.el8. I’m trying to get the new one setup and running. I copied over my RStudio app that lives in /var/www/ood/apps/sys/RStudio and adjusted names so that it works. But when I launch it on the new version I don’t get a resizable window on a desktop Does anyone know how to get the desktop on the ne…

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