Xgl and KDE: Application bar is empty

Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

Hi there,

I'm playing around with Xgl from xgl-coffee, and their forum is down at the moment.

Xgl works fine, and I have emerged kdelibs from xgl-coffee with the pertty USE flag. (What does this flag actually do?) Kicker provides a bar showing currently opened windows which in German is called "Fensterleiste". With Xgl, it is empty, so I have to switch windows by Alt+Tab. Additionally, I have no chance to restore minimized windows. Does anybody know what to do?

Thanks!
Peter

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

works fine for me (I'm not using pertty) try it without the Pertty use flag
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Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

Thanks, I'll try that. Could there be any need to reemerge other KDE components such as kwin or kicker, since they depend on kdelibs?

Peter

Admiral_Trigger_Happy · Guru Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Australia

shouldn't be as its a minor change, run revdep-rebuild to be sure though
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Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

Hi,

reemerging kdelibs without pertty didn't help, either. Just doing revdep-rebuild.

Edit: revdep-rebuild didn't find anything KDE-related to rebuild.

Earthwings · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software.
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kmare · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

it's working perfectly here with the pertty patches. A friend had a similar problem and i solved it by removing the taskbar from kicker and adding it again... a restart of compiz was needed...

btw: does anybody know if the switcher can show minimized windows as well? thanx
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Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

I have noticed that removing ~/.kde3.5 gives me a new KDE configuration with the window bar working correctly, but I don't wanna lose my whole configuration. Does anybody which parts are releveant to the window bar, so that I can check, if removing them solves the problem?

Thank you!
Peter

Gusar · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

This option doesn't exist, and I think it only is availabe for the task switcher, isn't it? Or is there a configuration option I could type into some file in ~/.kde/? What is this problem caused by? The problem lives on ... ;-)

Gusar · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject:

Oh, I forgot. The option only exists if you run KDE in the normal X server, not Xgl. So run KDE inside normal X, set the option and then try Xgl again.

Peter Thomassen · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 64 Location: Germany

Okay, this helped, but there still are some problems:
- The Kontact icon in the taskbar is always highlighted as if new mail had arrived.
- When clicking links in e-mails, existing Konqueror instances aren't recognized to open a new tab within, but a new instance of Konqueror is started.

Are these problems specific to me, or is this just work to be done?

Also, my question what pertty does is still unanswered :-)

Many thanks!
Peter