[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Sat Jul 16 19:39:04 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 16/07/11 09:06 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 15 July 2011 23:20, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> '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).
+>>
+> 
+> It worked since mikala added
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/kdebase4-runtime/current/SOURCES/kdebase-runtime-4.6.0-fedora-support-for-compiz.patch,
+> IIUC.
+
+Ahh.
+
+FWIW, I think I always patched compiz to ensure it started the decorator
+for you...
+
+So a question is: Is compiz running but without decorations?
+
+If yes, then is the decoration plugin loaded in compiz itself?
+
+If yes, then I'd suggest that either:
+ 1. Compiz is no longer staring the decorator for some reason.
+or
+ 2. The script "compiz-window-decorator" is not working.
+
+
+That's probably the first place to start.
+
+
+
+Col
+
+
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