On Jun 22, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Phillip Mills wrote:
I'm using fink in an attempt to get the Umbrello UML modeler working. Installing it from 'unstable' caused an installation of KDE 3.4.1 with odd results.
When I start X11 and execute 'startkde &', it seems to go through all the motions of working, but ends up in a state where all its windows seem to be in the background and don't respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes. This includes the bar at the bottom of the screen and its K menu. If I create a new xterm, it becomes the focus for keystrokes and I can run applications, but the moment I click on any window (xterm or application), it too becomes background.
There is an issue with Apple's X11 wherein you have to select X11 (e.g. via the Dock or option-tab) to bring its windows to the foreground, but it doesn't sound like this is it (see below)
I've read the startup log and see a few complaints that might represent problems:
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
Probably OK (at least I get those)
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kwin: it looks like there's already a window manager running. kwin not started.
Yes--you ran Apple's quartz-wm window manager when you started X11. The interaction between KDE and quartz-wm has historically been problematic. Check out
One of the examples tells you how to start the current version of KDE under Apple's X11.
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kicker: KMiniPager: Call to KWinInterface::setDesktopLayout(int, int, int) failed
[...]
kio: KNFSShare: Could not found exports file!
However, what makes this most interesting is that if I shut down X11 and start it again, everything seems to work reasonably well. Sometimes I get a K menu and panel and sometimes not; sometimes I get a warning dialog about a crash log being detected and sometimes not. But either way, programs that depend on KDE start working at that point.
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Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
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