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Friday, September 19th 2008, 8:15am

Firefox without border

Hi,

I have this really wierd problem. When I launch firefox it runs but without the border (I think they are called window decorations). This is annoying because it means the buttons at the top left corner are missing. I can't close, minimize or maximize normally. Now usually I attribute this to compiz screwing up but the wierd thing is that all other programmes work fine. They all have their borders.

I am running KDE4.1 and and I run Compiz Fusion (I think. It just worked automatically when I installed KDE4.1).

Is this a KDE problem? Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?

BFC

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Friday, September 19th 2008, 10:02am

More infos needed

it is hard to figure out, which of the 1000 reasons might be the right one in your situation. Maybe some questions first:

- which linux distro do you use?
- which update repository do you use for kde4.1
- when was your last kde4.1 update?
- were there warnings reported and if: what did you do then?
- Is firefox the only application with this effect? what about thunderbird or others?

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Friday, September 19th 2008, 2:48pm

Hi,

Sorry I should have mentioned all that information earlier. I run Arch Linux with KDEmod installed. Arch is a rolling distro so all my software is up to date with the lastest stable versions. KDEmod is KDE tweeked for Arch Linux. I use the KDEmod repositories namely the "core" and "extragear" ones.

When I run firefox there are no warnings. I also tried running firefox in safe-mode and that didn't make any difference. Thunderbird works fine. I also tried changing the firefox themes but that didn't really change anything.

Firefox is indeed the only application with this effect. Its really wierd. I stumped. ?(

BFC

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Saturday, September 20th 2008, 5:51pm

I discovered that this is most likely a FireFox problem. I changed my composite manager from Compiz to Kwin and problem presists. Therefore it must be a firefox problems.

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Saturday, September 27th 2008, 8:18am

I run Arch Linux with KDEmod installed. Arch is a rolling distro so all my software is up to date with the lastest stable versions. KDEmod is KDE tweeked for Arch Linux.

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