It seems that xfce is not able to read my home directory. Any changes made there (for example ~/Desktop/Autostart is not read, or .themes/xfwm4/custom.keys/keythemerc). Changes to global keyfile (/usr/share/xfwm4) work. Can someone comment on this? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
ok, i could fix the autostart problem by unmerging xfce4-session, but the ~/.themes problem still persists
DOH, should learn to read :D the fault was infront of the keyboard