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ksu

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Registered: 2015-02-26

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Minimal kwin installation?

Hello, Arch and general Linux noob here

I'm experimenting with different WMs and DEs and now I wanted to try Xfce with Kwin, inspired by this: http://thelinuxrain.com/articles/tutori … -with-xfce

I installed the kwin package but it doesn't seem to be the right package to get kwin running, because I get "command not found" when trying to run "kwin --replace".

So I uninstalled the kwin package and installed the kdebase-workspace package instead and now I'm able to run kwin. But the kdebase-workspace package with all its dependencies is kinda heavy for my needs.

Now two questions:

1) What is the kwin package for, if it doesn't include the kwin command/binary (however you call it on linux )?
2) Is there any way to install kwin, outside of the kdebase-workspace package, with as little dependencies as possible?

arojas

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

It's called kwin_x11 or kwin_wayland now.

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

You can generally run "pacman -Ql package_name | grep bin" to see executables.

ksu

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Registered: 2015-02-26

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

Ahh perfect, thank you!

And thanks lucke for this useful command, have put it on my cheatsheet

Last edited by ksu (2015-02-26 22:45:41)

ksu

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

Followup question: I have now installed the kwin package again and I am able to run kwin with "kwin_x11 --replace", but when I try to open the "Window Manager Settings" nothing happens. In the terminal where I started kwin I get this:

klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
Could not open library '/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5'.
Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5: (/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
kwin_core: Failed to start kcmshell5:  "KDEInit could not launch 'kcmshell5':
Could not open library '/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5'.
Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5: (/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"

I suppose I need to install some kde packages that the kwin package didn't include. Any idea what's missing? klauncher, kdeinit or kcmshell don't seem to be individual packages.

Last edited by ksu (2015-02-26 23:01:46)

lucke

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

Another trick: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile

pb

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

libkdeinit5_kcmshell5.so is a part of kde-cli-tools

ksu

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Re: Minimal kwin installation?

Thanks alot! I just realized how powerful pkgfile is. Installed kde-cli-tools and now I can open the kwin settings manager. Learning something new every day.