On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:12:58PM +0200, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
> Le Monday 16 June 2008 23:06:22 Frédéric Guardia, vous avez écrit :
> > Le Monday 16 June 2008 23:02:13 Frédéric Guardia, vous avez écrit :
> > > Le Monday 16 June 2008 22:25:08 Frederik Himpe, vous avez écrit :
> > > > Smells like http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163303
> > > >
> > > > Does it work if you change from opengl to xrender? And then the next
> > > > time you log in, you have to set it back to opengl to get it to work?
> > > > Also running kwin by hand should fix it. Seems like kwin compositing is
> > > > not started correctly at logon, but is if it is restarted later on.
> > >
> > > Yes, It's working if I follow your explanation. I have read the kde bug
> > > report 163303 and It seems to be this one. Thanks a lot. I didn't try to
> > > run kwin by hand.
> > >
> > > Bye.
> >
> > Launching 'kwin --replace' in terminal fix the problem too.
>
> i just tried abd this worked for me too

Is there some Mandriva specific patch which changes the way the window
manager is started, related to compiz or something like that? That
could explain why it does only work when started by hand. It seems to be
a Mandriva specific problem, as such a visible problem would probably
already be known by upstream authors if it happend for everyone.

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Frederik Himpe