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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:20:51
Message-Id: 200808150919.48626.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Friday 15 August 2008 09:10:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > > Yes, it's bleeding-edge :-) This is in an effort to get some
5 > > performance out
6 > > of what should be a very decent video card. It also eats
7 > > babies, or more often
8 > > the window decorations on konsole.
9 >
10 > I've had a similar issue ("similar" in that it was not exclusive to
11 > konsole) and tracked it down to having the KDE_IS_PRELINKED env var set
12 > while KDE was actually *not* prelinked. So check if that's the case on
13 > your system.
14
15 Not the case here. Not even I would dare try prelink KDE4 just yet :-)
16
17 > PS:
18 > Give Yakuake a try; it doesn't even need a decorator. I only recently
19 > discovered it and after using it for a few minutes I even went as far as
20 > trying to unmerge Konsole ;)
21
22 I know about Yakuake, exceptionally nice console. I used it for a while, but
23 found it interferes with my custom toolbar that drops down from the top edge.
24 Maybe I should just try it again, I see there's a version 4 in the overlay
25 these days
26
27 --
28 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com