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Missing title bars & can't move windows

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Sunday, July 27th 2003, 3:10am

Missing title bars & can't move windows

I'm stumped, so hopefully someone has some insight. I'm a Mac OS X user.

I'm running XDarwin 4.3 and KDE 3.1. Everything installed without problems, however when I start KDE, all of my windows are missing title bars, and I can't move any windows. I've searched the web, and found other people with the same problem, but no solutions or ideas as to what might be causing the problem.

HELP!!!!!!!!!

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-Bill

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Sunday, July 27th 2003, 10:28am

Sounds like there is no window manager.
The window manager draws the decorations and, well, manages windows, including repositioning, resizing.

Check if kwin is installed.

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Sunday, July 27th 2003, 1:06pm

Could you tell me how to check if kwin is installed or running. I know the kwin binary was installed when I installed KDE.

I use a package manager called fink, and it's listing kwin as being istalled and the current version, but I'm guessing there's also a way to check it from the terminal?


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Sunday, July 27th 2003, 2:23pm

hmm, kwin should have been started then.
I don't know how this startup works on OS X, on Linux it is done by a script called startkde.

try starting kwin from a konsole running in your X session.

If it doesn't work either you could check if the fink people have a mailinglist

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