[kde-linux] Window Borders Have Dissapeared

[Steve O'Neill]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Alain M. wrote:

> That problem with borders disapearing happend many times to me with
> Mandriva 2007/2008. It appears that when "something" goes wrong it
> triggers that.
>
> Could someone, please, explain who is responsible for drawing the
> borders and what happens with it so that it could be fixed anytime it
> happens?
>
> thanks,
> Alain

Apparently, the problem happens when the version of kwin, the window manager,
gets out of sync with the library /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so.  At least in my
case, restoring the version of the library that came with the original
installation disk restored kwin's ability to run.  This brought back the
window borders, resizing, positioning, etc. The question then becomes why the
library gets changed.  I believe it comes about when some package to be
installed is dependent on a later library version and simply goes ahead and
updates the lib that's currently on your drive.  Unfortunately, this package
doesn't also automatically trigger updating every program that's currently on
your system and which is dependent on the version of the lib file. This may be
a structural problem with the package updating system, or it may simply be
carelessness on the part of the package maintainers.  At this point, I don't
know. The only way to fix the problem when it occurs that I'm aware of right
now is just to put back the original version of the library.  If the version
of kwin is updated, installing it might fix the problem, also.

Steve O'Neill


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