If it’s not too late, what happens when you run:
xfwm4 --replace
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How??? It’s literally working, thanks so much!
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Well, I boot in tty now… The only thing I think could’ve done anything about this was earlier in the day when I uninstalled and reinstalled lightdm, although the reinstall didn’t go through smoothly, it was working though
Wahh, why did you uninstall lightdm ! The issue is that it may have uninstalled dependencies shared with other Xfce components…
Anyhow, try:
sudo rm .Xauthority
sudo rm .ICEauthority
sudo rm .xsession-errors*
rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*
sudo reboot
If insufficient, try:
rm -fr ~/.cache
No sudo with the rm commands !
systemctl status lightdm.service
it should say: Active: active (running)
systemctl status lightdm.service
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-02-18 18:23:38 UTC; 1 day 14h ago
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Main PID: 703 (lightdm)
Tasks: 14 (limit: 9387)
Memory: 106.5M
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
├─703 /usr/bin/lightdm
└─736 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
You deinstalled it and installed it again?
Then you probably need to start and enable the service again.
systemctl enable lightdm.service
systemctl start lightdm.service
@nam1962
xfwm4 --replace
that was clever and a good find - it was a long time ago that I saw something like this and did not remember that it was caused by the window manager not running for some reason
LightDM is not your window manager!!! it is the display manager.
Your window manager is xfwm4 by default.
A simple xfwm4 --replace restarts it as mentioned above.
And please provide information as per the following (makes it easier for other members):
Also maybe some information here could help with troubleshooting your game.
@nam1962 what does that do? Also lightdm is gone, I don’t even think I have enough disk space to reinstall it… Oof
It turns out I do, doing it!
So i have done all you said, except for that removing thing because i didnt understand what it did
Now my desktop is back, it also seems to work after i reboot, granted i xfwm4 --replace every time on boot, which is a pain, although, (please don’t rage on me if i get the definition of desktop manager wrong) but i think its not there, i.imgur com/fHmjZbj.jpg, this is my main screen right now for some reason and the ability to right click and get the context menu on the desktop is gone, it has been for a while (since i’ve had this whole problem)
Do the rm thing 
(It’ll remove stored sessions on which the system starts again.)
Did you apply @Nachlese instructions ? (you should have)
i will, and yes
I just had the same thing happen to a clients computer, and theyre not the type to be poking around and changing dot files or GUI configurators. I did try the suggestion of restoring from /etc/skel/ but that and a reboot didnt seem to help. What /did/ eventually fix it was removing a saved session from the xfce4-session manager application. I think what was happening in my case was a session had xfdesktop or or something xfwm maybe, that wasnt starteds but it thought it was. ==yay -S xfce4== mostly offered reinstalls in this case as well.
Not sure how xfce4 sessions work but clearing it was a matter of xfce4-settings-manager > Session & Startup > Saved Sessions > Select any existing Sessions > Clear Saved Sessions.
I’m not sure any of that will be relevant to you, so good luck 
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