Hi, After today's (07-10-2022) package updates, XFCE is not working properly. When you start a windowed application, there are no window control buttons and you cannot close the running application. My desktop wallpaper is also not displayed - the background is black. I had an almost identical case in August this year after the GhostBSD updates, which I was working on at the time. After that incident I switched to FreeBSD , and all was well until today. Fortunately for me, I took a ZFS snapshot before running the 'pkg install', and had something to go back to. System configuration: physical computer, FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p2, XFCE, graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460.
Packages from latest, or quarterly? pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
Strange behaviour I've seen nothing like this happen, anyway, some more useful information that could shed some light: - List of packages that were updated? (can b e gathered from /var/log/messages, pkg by default log there what it is doing) - Content of ~/.xsession-errors (possibly stripping down uninteresting parts) - Content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log - You should also indicate if you're starting X11 via startx/startxfce4 from the console, or using a display manager, and which one. For XFCE the suggested one is lightdm. One thing that comes to mind is, if you're using quarterly packages, the latest update round brings in a major Xorg server update which includes some breaking changes. Maybe those are in some way interfering with your setup.
I read to the end of the email you sent me and focused on the 'P.S.' section. As you suggested I uninstalled and reinstalled the same graphics card driver, and ... it helped! Earlier I did a 'rollback' to the system state with XFCE installed before running 'pkg upgrade' , ran the package upgrade, uninstalled and reinstalled the graphics card driver and after that started XFCE with 'startx'. Other than what I described above, I did not make any other changes. Thank you very much.