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On 3/22/2010 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: |
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>>> I thought that KDE4 uses KDEWM not KWin ... ? |
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>> Dunno where you got that name. There's no such thing, and I don't |
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>> think there |
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>> ever has been: |
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> There is such a thing but it appears to be a variable not a executable. |
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> I found several references to it in the KDE mailing lists. All related |
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> to KDE4 by the way. |
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It's not KDE4-specific, but you are correct that it's the name of an |
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environment variable, not an actual KDE component. |
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Setting KDEWM was the standard way of getting compiz instead of KWin for |
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your window manager in KDE3. Now that KWin composites all by itself, |
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not really necessary, but the variable still works as before. |
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--Mike |