[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Mon Jul 18 21:25:30 CEST 2011

On 07/16/2011 01:39 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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:
+>>>>
+>>>> 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.
+>
+
+I can't swear that I wasn't running with 0.8.8 before, but I've just 
+re-tested with 0.8.8, and now it's working fine.  Thanks to everyone who 
+posted !
+