[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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