[SOLVED] XFCE Crashes

Question

Hi,
I have some 'stability problems' with my XFCE+Compiz installation. I'm using the newest updates and also configured most things as said in the wiki.
Most times I have desktop crashes, wich means restarting the DE.
I use plank & conky. Slim as login manager.
Have an Geforce 450 GTS GPU and an i5-2400 CPU.
Sometimes plank is disappeared from my desktop, but still when hovering over the 'invisible dock' I can see the labels from the icons. (There is no dock visible)
This is my .xinitrc: (modded to load conky and plank)
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
# Do not launch dbus before ConsoleKit (FS#25031)
#[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
[ "$f" -ne "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus" ] && [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec /home/user/.start-everything.sh
start-everything.sh:
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/user
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
/usr/bin/X :0.0 -br -audit 0 -nolisten tcp vt7 &
export DISPLAY=:0.0
sleep 1
startxfce4 > /tmp/xfce4.log 2>&1 &
(sleep 10 && conky -c /home/user/.conky/.conkyrc_bar) &
plank
Hope someone can help me, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Thanks!
Last edited by beta990 (2012-08-25 13:45:34)

Answer 1

The Wiki states that the 'exec whatever your DE might be' should always be the last command in your autostart file. In other words: first start all the programs you want running (with a 'wait' command if you so choose) and start the DE or WM last.
If you try:
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/user
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
/usr/bin/X :0.0 -br -audit 0 -nolisten tcp vt7 &
export DISPLAY=:0.0
sleep 1
(sleep 10 && conky -c /home/user/.conky/.conkyrc_bar) &
plank &
exec startxfce4
it should work IMO...
Also: is there a specific reason you start a 'start-everything.sh' shell script from your .xintrc, which is also a shell script? You can easily start all the apps you need by putting them all in ~/.xinitrc.
Last edited by Dustbin (2012-05-13 08:56:36)