HELP with xfce window bars and buttons - MX16

[mihail_bc]

Hi, just now after turning on the laptop and entering the system, my windows have no buttons and no title bar but most important I cannot move them (holding alt button doesnt work). Also cant close them, cant select them. Right click on a page/text diasspaeras when scroling in the menu to click copy.Last night, before shut down I have received an error and was a small delay, it didnt want to shut down, something about a object thing that is still active. After a small delay it turned of, and now I got this.

Also, cant switch between desktop1 and desktop2, programs arent showed in menu bar, and after loging in (user and pass) desktop wallpaper doent load, nor the icons on the desktop (it still displays the wallpaper from the log in session).

Brave browser starts in full screen mode, but other apps are smaller in width, cant maximize them.

How to fix?
Thanks

[mihail_bc]

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[mihail_bc]

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[Eadwine Rose]

Please edit your post instead of multiposting. All this info could have been edited into the first post. You can use the pencil icon for that.

[j2mcgreg]

We need your computer’s complete profile before we can diagnose a problem like this, so you need to post the output from the QSI utility. The Quick System Info (QSI) utility is located in MX Tools and its output is automatically formatted for use here in the forum. Run the QSI utility, click “Copy for Forum” at the bottom and then just paste it here in your thread.
Per Forum Rules

[mihail_bc]

thank you for the reply, however it seems my tools are older?
cant find the qsi you mention.

[mihail_bc]

would this help?

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.8.0-2.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A 
           Distro: MX-16_x64 Metamorphosis 12 December 2016 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0CPWYR v: A00 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A18 
           date: 01/18/2016 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.2 Wh condition: 2.0/62.2 Wh (3%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3340M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/2701 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1400 3: 1300 
           4: 1600 
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.3 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.8.0-2.1-liquorix-amd64 
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: f0:1f:af:63:09:c4 
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: e0:9d:31:06:cf:30 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 465.76 GiB used: 374.76 GiB (80.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HGST HTS725050A7E630 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 458.33 GiB used: 374.76 GiB (81.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 28.0 C sodimm: 28.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 208 Uptime: 2h 32m Memory: 7.71 GiB used: 729.3 MiB (9.2%) Shell: bash 
           inxi: 3.0.10

[j2mcgreg]

The best answer I can give you is that your problems would disappear if you just upgraded to the latest version of MX. There are no fixes available that don't involve the installation of modern software, which won't run properly with your version of MX. Your machine is certainly capable of running MX 21 and I offer, as proof, the QSI of my Aspire V5 which predates your Dell by 4 years:

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Snapshot created on: 20220715_1108
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 [5.10.162-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower April 9  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire V5-571 v: V1.12 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Acer model: Aspire V5-571 v: V1.12 serial: <filter> UEFI: Phoenix v: 1.12 
           date: 06/12/2012 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 23.3 Wh (86.3%) condition: 27.0/37.0 Wh (72.9%) volts: 15.3 
           min: 14.8 model: SANYO AL12A32 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2367M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 2F cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11174 
           Speed: 886 MHz min/max: 800/1400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 886 2: 910 3: 885 4: 926 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: 
           conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Chicony HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b336 
           class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 345x194mm (13.6x7.6") 
           diag: 396mm (15.6") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-21-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.2 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
           driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0034 
           class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 19.96 GiB (4.3%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 
           size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD 
           serial: <filter> rev: 20WD scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 457.5 GiB size: 449.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 19.96 GiB (4.4%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 
           maj-min: 8:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 37.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2099 lib: 1044 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 209 Uptime: 17m wakeups: 4 Memory: 7.57 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (13.9%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Huckleberry Finn]

If you like, these will reset the related settings to defaults:

• press F4

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  rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml

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  rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml

• Reboot. (Or logout, login)

(Hoping there's no permissions/ownership issues)


P.S. Deliberately no sudo , no su , no root etc.

[Eadwine Rose]

Try this command for QSI: inxi -Fxxxrza