[kde-linux] Window Borders Have Dissapeared

[sc]

On Monday 17 December 2007 13:58, Steve O'Neill wrote:
> I've been bringing up the 2007 version of PCLinuxOS, and
> using KDE as my desktop manager. Until today, it ran fine. 
> However, when I started up this morning, I discovered that
> three things about the UI are screwed up:
>
> 1. My multiple desktops have dissapeared from the kicker
> panel. Something set the number back to 1;
>
> 2. None of the windows that I open has borders.  Needless
> to say, that makes it a bit difficult to move the windows,
> and;
>
> 3. All the windows I open seem to want to open up in the
> lower right corner. Because I can't move the windows, it's
> become impossible to use the Control Center to modify any
> of the window properties or set up more than one desktop.
>
> I'm running ver. 3.5.8 of KDE, and the above problems are
> global; no matter whether I start up as myself, another
> user, or even root, the same window problems occur.  I
> suspect that some system-wide configuration file(s) got
> messed up when I installed one  package or the other
> yesterday, but I have no idea which file(s) it is.
>
> Can someone give me a hint how I might go about fixing this
> before I go to the extreme of reinstalling everything?  TIA
> for any help you can provide.

does alt-F3 bring up a window menu?

sc


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