[kde-linux] Window Borders Have Dissapeared

Steve O'Neill soneill at netaxs.com
Mon Dec 17 21:53:22 UTC 2007


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, sc wrote:

> 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


	Nope.

Steve O'Neill



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