[SOLVED] xfce4 mystery

Hi
I'm a newbie to Arch, but not to xfce. Xfce4 was installed as indicated in the wiki with everything and the 'goodies' too. Problems:
1) There does not appear to be any window manager in effect. All my windows are borderless and have no buttons.
2) Right clicking on the desktop brings up the menu. The first entry in the menu, 'Desktop Menu' is grayed out.
3) Click desktop > settings > settings manager > {window manager or window manager tweaks} a dialog box pops up saying: 'These settings cannot work with your current window manager (Unknown)'
Until now, I have always built Xfce from source so perhaps there is a package I am missing or something? Any help is appreciated.
Thank you
Last edited by fianella (2007-10-16 01:18:55)

it appears to be running.
[root@workstation ~]# ps ax | grep xf
3010 tty1 S 0:00 xfce4-session
3013 ? Ss 0:00 xfce-mcs-manager
3015 tty1 Sl 0:01 xfdesktop --sm-client-id 109061a294000119248306200000
3027 tty1 S 0:00 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 109061a2940001192483061000
3028 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-menu-plugin
3090 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep xf

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