[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 10:06:59 CEST 2011


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.

> Normally, you pick compiz via drak3d....
>
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