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Naruni

Member

Registered: 2010-08-05

Posts: 34

kde-window-decorator in compiz

Hi,
Where is the package for kde-window-decorator?
The wiki just says to type it into ccsm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … Decoration
Ive tried installing compiz, the kde deps, rebuilding compiz after deps were installed, tried to locate kde-window-decorator using pkgfile, and looked at the pkgbuild/build options for compiz. It's almost as if this is not an option, as there is a total lack of documentation on kde-window-decorator.

Am I totally missing something obvious or does this binary not exist?

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,473

Re: kde-window-decorator in compiz

I don't think it is still mantained

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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: kde-window-decorator in compiz

From the wiki: "The GTK Window Decorator and the KDE Window Decorator are included in the Compiz source and can be optionally compiled whilst building Compiz. Emerald, on the other hand, is a separate, standalone decorator."

You didn't say which package you were using. But for compiz or compiz-bzr change:

-DBUILD_KDE4=Off \

to

-DBUILD_KDE4=On \

Then rebuild. Then you can specify the command in the decoration plugin as per the wiki. It's not documentated because it goes pretty much unused these days. After all, it relys on Kwin (provided by kdebase-workspace, not the Kwin for Plasma 5) and as Kwin has all of the effects Compiz has, why bother with Compiz?