kde plasma on Windows 7

[Mihai Dobrescu]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Eduard Sukharev <kraplax at mail.ru> wrote:
> В сообщении от Вторник 03 мая 2011 15:09:43 автор Mihai Dobrescu написал:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Eduard Sukharev <kraplax at mail.ru> wrote:
>> > В сообщении от Вторник 03 мая 2011 04:00:51 автор Mihai Dobrescu написал:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I face a strange issue with the KDE plasma.
>> >> At ALT-TAB I see in my Windows 7 (64-bit with sp1 and all the updates
>> >> to day, actually two systems, one having Enterprise, other Ultimate) a
>> >> plasma window contour (hidden?) at the middle of the screen, my screen
>> >> has 1280x1024 and plasma seems to be 1024x768.
>> >> It does not come in front, in the ALT-TAB menu is drawn as known in
>> >> linux, having oxygen theme look.
>> >> I guess it is in back, below the Windows standard desktop, and I can't
>> >> interact with it and I need to know how to make it stay in front of
>> >> the Windows desktop.
>> >>
>> >> Does anybody know how to fix this?
>> >>
>> >> BTW, is there a Windows KDE 4.6.x release soon?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mike
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>> > Not sure of the state of Plasma on Windows today, but from what i knew
>> > you might want to kill the explorer.exe ;-)
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>> > Eduard Sukharev
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>> I wouldn't kill explorer. As I understood, they can work in parallel,
>> although I might get it wrong, of course.
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> Well, Plasma, as it's supposed to be, is an explorer.exe replacement. They
> might coexist, but almost surely they will conflict - as in this case. I don't
> know which name the current plasma desktop binary has (a year ago it was
> plasma-desktop.exe iirc), but you may try to use the Platform KCM to replace
> explorer.exe with plasma - should be available in SystemSettings if you
> installed it. But be aware that if the Plasma desktop binary changed you will
> end up without any shell at all - then you'll have to run SystemSettings again
> and get the explorer back as default user shell.
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> Best regards,
> Eduard Sukharev
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Here work in parallel, it seems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZt4TaRmLEY