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Box0

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From: Italy

Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 218

[solved] Configuring kwin in LXQT

I'm using kwin 5.0.0 (from [kde-unstable]) as a window manager for LXQT. I only have LXQT installed, no KDE or other DE.

How do I configure kwin in this situation? Specifically I'm having these problems:

- there is no ~/.kde4/.../kwinrc to modify
- all windows do not have titlebars

Is it necessary to install all of the kde workspace to use systemsettings or is there a less invasive way to configure kwin?

Edit: nevermind, I found the AUR systemsettings package, thanks arojas! I'm not sure if this topic should be deleted, binned, whatever...

Last edited by Box0 (2014-07-23 09:35:10)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,313

Re: [solved] Configuring kwin in LXQT

Since kwin is installed in /opt, you need to set the env variables accordingly before using kwin, otherwise it won't find the decoration plugins. See the 10-kf5 script in plasma-workspace AUR package. Or, if you don't plan to install KDE4, you can recompile it with -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

The configuration file is in ~/.config/kwinrc

fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: [solved] Configuring kwin in LXQT

I'm exactly in the same situation, but compiling with "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr" hasn't solved the issue. Launching systemsettings shows only one decoration (plastik), but it's not enabled; no decoration or titlebar. Compositing effects do not seem to be wholly enabled as well.

fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: [solved] Configuring kwin in LXQT

Well, "export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg" in .bashrc seems to have solved.

Thanks a lot for your packages.