multwindow mode problem
Okko Willeboordse
trash at willeboordse.demon.nl
Thu Jan 13 08:41:54 CET 2005
David Strozzi <dstrozzi <at> MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> First, KDE for cygwin is extremely helpful! Many thanks to its creators.
>
> I installed KDE 3.1.4 today, upgrading from 3.1.1. I could run KDe
> 'normally' via
>
> startx &
>
> but not in 'multiwindow' (all windows just normal windoze windows)
>
> start -multiwindow &
>
> I get an error, identical to one in a post from February by Trevor
> (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=107769264302613&w=2), where
> the KDE
> desktop 'takes up' the whole screen except the windows taskbar, and I
> can't get any windoze windows to come to the foreground.
>
> So, I wiped cygwin off my hard drive, made a fresh install, and
> multiwindow worked fine. For several times.
>
> Then, I started 'full' KDE with startx &, and now the same problem occurs
> with multiwindow!
>
> Following Ralf's suggestion to Trevor, I looked to see if the process kwin
> is running after KDE is done, and it is. I kill it, and multiwindow works
> fine, new kde progs start as windoze windows, etc.
>
> But, why does kwin start? When I run KDE with startx &, is that modifying
> some initialization file?
Can it be that the behavior of ksmserver has changed?
Have a look in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde. When in multiwindow mode, ksmserver
is started with '--windowmanager unknown'. Obviously 'unknown' is not a valid
window manager. The current version of ksmserver then starts kwin. If you
change the following line of /opt/kde3/bin/startkde:
KDEWM="unknown" # dummy name to avoid loading of a window manager
into:
KDEWM="wm" # dummy name to avoid loading of a window manager
then kwin is not loaded and multiwindow seems to work, although I don't
know the implications of running ksmserver with --windowmanager wm.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ------------------------
> David Strozzi
>
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