gnome starts xfce by default now. How do I kill xfce?

mat74 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 88

Hi there! I fooled around with the startscript of xfce4 during an open gnome-session and now xfce starts everytime I start gnome. I can avoid this by starting the failsafe gnome, but I wonder if there is any other way to get rid of xfce starting alongside gnome? Thanks in advance for any hints!

koroumel · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:27 am Post subject:

I guess that you logged off your gnome session while having XFCE running. THis seved the session with xfce running so you have to reset it to metacity again. To do so use gconf, look arround in the gnome setting and you will see "xfce" mentioned, change it to "metacity"
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mat74 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 88

Thanks for your answer, koroumel!
I've figured it out: I moved xfce's top panel to the bottom, opened gnome's system-monitor and killed everything that belonged to xfce. After I logged off gnome, it started by itself again. Beforehand I couldn't access the gnome-panel, because xfce's panel lay above it. That should teach me never to play around with the startscript for xfce again ;-)