[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Fri Jul 15 23:20:40 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Balcaen John at 15/07/11 20:16 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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)
+
+Interesting, that method never really worked before (or at least I never
+tested it).
+
+Normally, you pick compiz via drak3d....
+
+Col
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