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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 18, 2012 1:39 PM, "Bogus Zaba" <<a href="mailto:bogsub@bogzab.plus.com">bogsub@bogzab.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 09/18/2012 02:21 AM, Duncan wrote:<br>
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Bogus Zaba posted on Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:13:42 +0100 as excerpted:<br>
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Did not work, but maybe there there is a clue here because this middle<br>
tab is...<br>
completely empty! There is a one-line text box into which you can type a<br>
search term and a much bigger box which presumably should contain a long<br>
list of effects which I should be able to play with.<br>
This is weird because the system clearly does know about available<br>
effects because on the first tab I have set (for example) : Effect for<br>
window switching to "Box Switch" from a pick-list.<br>
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Wow! I'd say that probably has something to do with it, for sure! But<br>
it's totally out of the blue, for me. I've never seen or heard anything<br>
like it!<br>
<br>
Two possibilities and if those (and sdowdy's suggestions) don't pan out,<br>
hit bugzilla and see if there's anything close. I'd say file a bug if<br>
you don't find anything like it, but what they're working on now is one<br>
and a half to two years of development beyond the 4.6 you're running, so<br>
it's probably not worth even thinking about at this point, if there's<br>
nothing already there about it. Once the new Slackware's out and you're<br>
on 4.8.x, however, if the bug's still there, I'd file it.<br>
<br>
There are only two possibilities I can think of that would be anywhere<br>
/close/ to that.<br>
<br>
1) Check to be sure, you're running kwin as the window manager, correct?<br>
Obviously if it somehow got replaced by compiz or the like, there'd be<br>
some dramatic loss of window manager configurability within kde, but I've<br>
never tried it, so I'm not sure what the symptoms would look like.<br>
<br>
Probably the easiest way to be sure kwin's your window manager is to run<br>
kwin --replace, from krunner or the like. You might also try from konsole<br>
or the like, and see if it spits out any useful information as errors,<br>
but if it's like most kde apps, devs apparently don't expect users to be<br>
watching STDOUT/STDERR at all, so they print out all kinds of alarming<br>
looking stuff even when things are working, for all one can tell. As a<br>
result, that output tends to be useless for troubleshooting unless you<br>
have another similarly configured system that's working to try it on as<br>
well, and can do a diff to eliminate all the "normal noise".<br>
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kwin --replace seemed to work just fine - everything looked exactly like it did prior to the command, plus I got the following valuable (?) output in konsole. It is clearly warning me that some effects are not supported, although it remains a mystery as to why.<br>
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bogzab:~/Documents> kwin --replace<br>
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation<br>
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!<br>
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 295.33<br>
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler<br>
Driver: NVIDIA<br>
Driver version: 295.33<br>
GPU class: NV40/G70<br>
OpenGL version: 2.1.2<br>
GLSL version: 1.20<br>
X server version: 1.9.5<br>
Linux kernel version: 2.6.37<br>
Direct rendering: yes<br>
Requires strict binding: no<br>
GLSL shaders: limited<br>
Texture NPOT support: yes<br>
kwin(1021) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::<u></u>loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_blur" is not supported<br>
kwin(1021) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::<u></u>loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_flipswitch" is not supported<br>
kwin(1021) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::<u></u>loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_startupfeedback" is not supported<br>
kwin(1021) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::<u></u>loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_screenshot" is not supported<br>
kwin(1021) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::<u></u>loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_coverswitch" is not supported<br>
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