[kde-linux] Window Borders Have Dissapeared

[david]

Steve O'Neill wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Andrew Walbran wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 6:42:14 am Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
>>> On Monday 17 December 2007 20:58, Steve O'Neill wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> No idea how to bring back the borders on your windows but have you tried
>>> moving them with:
>>> keep left alt key pressed, left click in the window, keep mouse button
>>> pressed and drag.
>> If that does not work, try opening Konsole and typing 'kwin &'. I suspect that
>> the KDE window manager has not been started for some reason; that will start
>> it. If it does not start with that command, the output it gives could be
>> useful in debugging the problem.
> 
> Here's what I get when I do this:
> 
> kwin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol:
> _ZNK11NETRootInfo24desktopLayoutOrientationEv
> 
> Obviously, kwin _isn't_ running(confirmed by look with 'ps').  I suspect one
> of the packages I installed has caused this, but I don't know which one.  I've
> already found one official PCLinuxOS package that doesn't work because of an
> undefined symbol in the program; there may be others.  It looks like I'm going
> to have to re-install the system and build it back up piece by piece until I
> find the package that's causing the problem.  Fortunately, I'm not dependent
> of this distro for any "real" uses yet, so all this will cost me is a bit of
> time.  Thanks to everyone for all your help.

My wife's been using that distro on her production laptop ever since it 
came out - with no problems whatever. What packages did you find that 
had that undefined symbol problem? Might just be a package maintainers 
glitch that could be easily fixed.

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David
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