[SOLVED] XFCE Desktop unaglined

Hello,
I installed arch a few days ago, and I encountered a problem with XFCE. When I log on to tty1, and do startxfce4. Everything is normal except the desktop is shifted upward and leftward. At the bottom, I can see the shell with "Initializing built-in extension XFree-DGA" and "Initializing built-in extension XFree-DRI" and "Initializing built-in extension DRI2" and "Loading extension GLX".
When I move my mouse to the left past the end. It comes back on the right, but can only go about an inch before it cannot move anymore. When I move my mouse to the right again, it goes to the left.
When I move a window all the way to the left, part of it shows up on the right.
I can provide a screenshot, however it displays the screen as if it were perfectly fine.
Please help, if there is any file I can provide please tell me.
EDIT:
I have Optimus, one HD4600 and a GT755M. People on other forums have told me to use Bumblebee, but I've had bad experiences with it so I want to stay away from it as much as possible. If it is nessecary, I can try it though. I am using the generic video driver. (mesa or vesa, whichever it is) I also have installed X. There are no error messages when I do startxfce4.
Last edited by craden (2014-03-05 02:38:24)

Ah yes, silly me. I installed nvidia and everything works now. Thank you. How do I mark this as solved?
Last edited by craden (2014-03-05 01:45:56)

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