[Mageia-dev] Where is the KDE WM ?

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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