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@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Mailing list and bugzilla: |
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The KWin mailing list is kwin@kde.org . It's rather low traffic. |
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The bugs.kde.org product for KWin is 'kwin'. Currently the components are 'general' (KWin core), |
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'decorations' (decoration plugins), 'compatibility' (problems with non-KDE WMs/apps) and |
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'eyecandy' (transparency and similar effects). |
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'decorations' (decoration plugins), 'compatibility' (problems with non-KDE WMs/apps), |
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'eyecandy' (transparency and similar effects), 'xinerama' (problems with Xinerama) and |
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'multihead' (non-Xinerama multihead, without maintainer). |
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There are also two kcontrol components 'kcmkwindecoration' and 'kcmkwinoptions' related |
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to KWin's KControl modules. |
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@ -63,6 +64,11 @@ and attach to the running KWin instance from there, or launch it as 'DISPLAY=:0 |
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Since KWin is such an important component of KDE, it is usually better to start another X for development. |
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Note that XNest is quite buggy and is therefore not recommended to use. |
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Starting separate X for testing KWin: I myself use a separate user, login to a text console and run |
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"( X vt10 :1 -terminate &); sleep 5; DISPLAY=:1 xterm". This launches another X with DISPLAY=:1 |
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on virtual console 10 (Ctrl+Alt+F10) with xterm. Then it's normally possible to run just KWin |
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or whole KDE with startkde (in which case it's a good idea to disable xterm from session management |
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in KControl->KDE components->Session manager). |
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Window manager spec: |
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