[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
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 !


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