xfce fail

This is a good one and extra kudos to anyone who can help me resolve it:

On a whim I installed an alternative Window manager for my Fedora 12 install called Enlightenment (http://www.enlightenment.org/) from here:

I like the way Xfce works on top of Linux Mint 14 Nadia (Quantal) - but I also like LXDE that I want to have in parallel. Mint 14 has no LXDE "version" now, and that is too bad.

I heard that installing multiple DE is not a problem. But ...

pietergen wrote:in XFCE I can grab a maximized window - leftclick on it and it gets smaller and you can drag it awayYes you can do this in openbox.

Hello!

Due to personal preference, on my old machine, which uses XFCE as desktop, I have changed the default window manager to metacity.

Now I want to do the same on my new machine, but unfortunately I have both forgotten what I had done exactly and cannot find a satisfying solution on the web either.

I'm using the i3 Window Manager, and am quite happy so far, but I have a few issues.

Using XFCE, my "Desktop" is seen as a separate container (window). That means that when I open a new program in the first workspace, that it will split the screen in two and show Desktop as one window, and the other program in another window.

My window manager seems to have broke (xfce). I don't see windows around borders, the mouse doesn't display, and i cannot open the "window manager" settings from the menu (the xorg text tty says my window manager is unknown). The panel still loads but doesn't display my desktops correctly (only shows 1, i have 2). How can i find out why this might have happened?

Im running #!Statler XFCE, was trying out different window-manager-styles (ie, xfce4-settings-manager -> window-decorations (mine is in swedish tho so I might not have gotten the eng name right, just guessing)), and when i picked one of them X crashed and threw me to gdm login. When I try to login as usual (Xsession), I get instantly kicked out again.

I use XFCE and its window manager, XFWM, and I quite like it. The only little thing that XFWM does not do, and that I really would have liked, was a visual effect: When hovering titlebar's buttons, there is usually a little effect.

Here's a strange little problem that's cropped up for me since I installed the XFCE desktop environment (I am running standard Ubuntu 12.04 but used the repositories to get XFCE)

As is the default, I use Thunar as my file manager. I set Nautilus as preferred file manager briefly to see if it would fix the problem, but no luck.