Hi all,

After installing xorg updates and Aliens kde 4.13.3 packages on slackware current my window borders have dissapeared...I tried reinstalling 4.13.3...did not solve the problem..any ideas?

Which Slackware version are you running? What graphics card do you have and what drivers are you running for it? (eg NVIDIA, nouveau/proprietry).

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Hi,

Had the same issue until I installed some extra new packages added to current.

I forgot which packages however....

slackpkg --install-new will tell you more I guess.

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I'm running slackware-current 64 ..graphics NVIDIA® Quadro® K1000M 2GB VRAM..I had the nouveau driver installed and thought it was nouveau..so I updated the driver to Linux-x86_64 NVIDIA 340.24...and still the same problem..

Like dlee99 said: when upgrading the X.Org packages for slackware-current, did you also install the NEW packages which were added to Slackware-current along with these upgrades? And did you upgrade ALL packages, not just the X.Org ones?

Failure to add the new packages will lead to missing library errors.
The missing window borders are an indication that the KDE Window Manager is not starting (kwin). I fixed that in a rebuilt package for kde-workspace-4.13.3 so make sure you installed that and not the first build:

Eric

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Yes, I installed all the new packages along with the upgrades..I just re downloaded the 4.13.3 folder and tried reinstalling it...didn't work..now I'm a little confused... is the kde-workspace-4.11.11-x86_64-2alien.txz package included in the kde 4.13.3 and is part of the upgrade or is that a separate package on its own that I'm suppose to or not suppose to install?

Thanks, Alien Bob.

Thank you dlee99 and rkfb.

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just checked packages with pkgtool....kde-workspace-4.11.11-x86_64-2alien.txz is installed.

I wonder how i could test to see if kwin is properly configured...or if its even installed??
any ideas?

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Also you could try 'kwin &' in a terminal window after starting X.

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nice pipe willysr..worked like a smokin penguin!...thanks.

[Sun Aug 03 02:49:22 darkmon0@darkstar:~ ]->$ kwin &
[1] 26073
[Sun Aug 03 02:49:28 darkmon0@darkstar:~ ]->$ QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kwin: unable to claim manager selection, another wm running? (try using --replace)


this sure is iteresting...thanks Arkerless.

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interesting

what do i i need to use --replace for?

I think we use confusing language concepts when it comes to the use of the word "upgrade".
It is not just the KDE packages that had new ones, but Slackware itself too.

Let's do a test to see if your system picked up some of the recently added packages:
What is the output of these two commands?

Also the "replace" comment when you ran "kwin &" means that you should try "kwin --replace &" in case there is a window manager running already. Then, kwin will stop the one that's running before starting itself. The message would suggest that kwin is running which is weird considering the fact that your windows do not have borders.

Eric

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