[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Fri Jul 15 21:16:45 CEST 2011

On Friday 15 July 2011 15:06:11 Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 07/15/2011 02:28 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> > Has anyone else noticed that as of updating yesterday or today, the
+> > windows in KDE have no titlebars, and cannot be moved or closed
+> > (except through the individual app) ?
+> > 
+> > I used to see this occasionally under GNOME 2.32, but logging out/in
+> > again usually put it right.  That doesn't work in the current KDE.
+> > All windows open in the top left of the screen with no enclosing
+> > frame, i.e. the MenuBar is the topmost thing you see.
+> 
+> Turning Compiz off gets the titlebars back, but I've had Compiz on for a
+> week or more without this problem.  Googling shows that there is some
+> conflict between Compiz and KDE, and other distro forums mentioned a
+> compiz-kde package.  Has something similar not been rebuilt for the new
+> KDE ?
+I just finished to push compiz 0.8.8 (works is done by julien) & everything is 
+working here.
+How do you configure compiz ?
+Here it's simply working by selecting compiz as the default windows manager 
+using systemsettings ( kcmshell4 componentchooser  in konsole)
+
+Regards,
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+