On Thursday, July 30, 2015 09:03:39 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 07:00:02 PM Brendon Higgins wrote: > > This doesn't seem to be fixed. I now have three separate machines, all > > tracking testing with a sprinkle of unstable packages (which includes > > those > > for kwin and kde-window-manager), none of which run kwin_x11 at login. > > They > > do all have the correct x-window-manager alternative set, and I can > > manually start kwin_x11 after login. > > > > >From my investigation, the problem is that ksmserver, which is what > > >starts > > >the > > > > window manager, by default attempts to find the "kwin" binary, but this > > binary no longer exists. Evidence for this is that I see > > 'KSMServer::wmProcessChange: Window manager "kwin" failed to launch' in my > > .xsession-errors file, and examining the source code > > (http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/workspace-apidocs/plasma-workspace/html/ksmser > > v > > er_2startup_8cpp_source.html, lines 233 and 234) suggests this really is > > the name of the binary ksmserver is looking for. > > > > If correct, I should be able to work around the issue by (as root) > > creating > > a link /usr/bin/kwin that points to kwin_x11. Indeed, I just checked, and > > that does appear to work. > > I've checked here and adding the symlink should be sufficient. I've > reopened this bug out of the several to cover it. Once the current kwin > upload migrates, I'll upload another revision that adds it.
Unfortunately, the gcc5 transition started before I could upload this, so it may be awhile before it hits the archive. The change is in the pkg-qt/kde git repository for the next kwin upload and in the meantime, people can create the symlink by hand to run the new kwin with KDE4. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
