[SOLVED] Fresh install issue - XFCE 'wonky'

[resofactor]

Heya, just wanted to first give a major shout-out to Eric and crew for the years of efforts and support for Linux.
You guys seriously RAWK! and love EVERYTHING out of the camp.

The AcroLinux collection of wallpapers and their 'future-centric' theming and look/graphics - TOP notch!

My tech issue

I just ran the ACLI installer https://alci.online/download-or-build/ alci-iso-dev
Installed into BOTH a VM (and an old laptop) and the SAME thing happens everytime.

Just logging out of the Display Manager - when I go back into XFCE...
it's like everything with XFCE 'crashed'/ or crashes,
XFCE right click on the mouse/menus are all messed up and the desktop is 'wonky' for better wording.
Right-click doesn't work.
Certain items on the Whisker Menu (such as the Window Managers tabs on the menu are 'broken).



I get that this is a 'fresh install' and I still have Linux-noobness going,
but is this 'normal' on a fresh Arch-install?


This is straight out of the first login after a new install,
before running sudo pacman -Syu or ANYTHING or any commands or anything else.

I've never had similar issue on other distros (then again - those were not 'pure-Arch'.
Any help or suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance!

[erikdubois]

No immediately an idea for now.

But soon I will make an Arch Linux installation to install dwm-flexi;

Xfce4 is the only thing I need in life. That is my backup.

The rest is my spice - dwm - chadwm - flexi...

So I will soon know if the packages currently provided (or the archinstall script providing them) is wrong somehow.

[resofactor]

Heya, Eric...

I consider it a real privilege, to get a reply from you directly.
Big fan of your work with AcroLinux for a few years now
You guys run one of the best distros out there.

Yes, here's what I've run into with ALCI...
The Arch-install you've configged via Calamares is rather 'smoooooooooooth' - BTW
lol

Love 'hassle-free' Arch when possible.


This issue has happened on both VirtualBox VMs and an older Toshiba Satellite I have.

It's like...fresh install via ALCI, right?
Login through the default Display Manager.
Everything on the desktop - is 'straight' XFCE desktop



No package updates. No sudo. Just login/logout.


Click logout to end XFCE session.
As soon as I log back in...

The wallpaper is gone (Picom is running - not this example by on my original post), and I still can't right-click the menu option over the open desktop, and on the Whisker Menu, itself, both of the Window Manager tabs on the Whisker Menu, and the Settings Manager page... none of those work.

Happened on multiple machines.

I was wondering if anyone else ran into this as well?



PS
Yes, Manjaro XFCE was my FIRST distro/desktop user experience, when I first seriously got more into Linux, about 3-4 years ago.
Prior to that, my only experience with Linux, was like this really OLD version of Fedora 5 or 6 like from around 2005-ish, I you remember 'what' those old versions looked like?

XFCE is still one of my favorite 'normie' desktop environments on Linux, even compared to GNOME (have mixed feelings about) and KDE? Was never a big fan of KDE and the (what seems to me) tooooooo many background processes and services JUST to use the FULL desktop environment.

Most of the PCs I'm running on are all rather 'old' by today's tech/benchmark standards and many other DEs out there just seem waaaaaaaaay to processor intensive. Especially if your running audio apps, recording/DAWs or video software. I'm definitely an XFCE-er, myself

[fennec]

I can confirm the same behavior as reported by @resofactor

Using alci-dev - archlinux-2024.07.16-x86_64.iso

The first login to the XFCE desktop works fine, all panels, desktop wallpaper, right click context menu opens.
After relog wallpaper isn't right clickable, desktop wallpaper is black.

I noticed that the window manager xfwm4 hadn't started.

What worked for me was removing package nvidia-340xx-utils then reboot.
After that all works as expected.

[resofactor]

Thanks a million, Fennec!
Much appreciated - BTW