[kde-linux] Window Borders Have Dissapeared

[Steve O'Neill]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Steve O'Neill wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Sounds like a serious packaging problem. Please report it to your distributor.
>
> Just as an additional info: the libkdeinit_ libraries are basically the
> program, in this case kwin. KWin the executable is just a small "laucher".
> This allows kdeinit to start applications faster at the initial startup.
> So the executable is _the_ use case for the library and should never get out
> of sync.

Interesting.  That would imply that there is at least one "undefined symbol"
bug in the later versions of libkdeinit_xxx. Even one such problem is too
many, so filing a problem report with PCLinuxOS is what I'll have to do.
Thanks for the info.

Steve O'Neill


>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
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> Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
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