KDE3.5 now missing window borders [SOLVED]

audiodef · Last edited by audiodef on Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

I recently ran emerge -uDN world and it installed KDE4. I emerged kdebase-startkde, using package.mask to filter out KDE4 (leaving the existing KDE4 installation alone). I had to do this because KDE3.5 was missing from my session types after the upgrade to KDE4 (apparently it did not automatically slot KDE4). The emerge gave me no problems (and I also ran revdep-rebuild).

But...

In KDE3.5, while everything starts and runs just fine, there are no window borders and thus no way to drag and move windows.

What happened?
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audiodef · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

I should add I can close windows with alt-F4 just fine. All keyboard shortcuts work. Just no window borders.
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widremann · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 1314

Maybe you need to reinstall kwin.

audiodef · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

I just tried reinstalling kwin, but that didn't work.

Now here's the weird part.

This only happens to my account. When I log in to another account, everything is just fine.

I'm going to try trashing my home dir's settings folder for this version of KDE and see if this forced settings reset fixes it.
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audiodef · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:

Yeah, chucking the whole .kde3.5 dir solved the missing window borders.

Now I gotta go Kustomize all over again.

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