So it works with Randall on 8.04 and 9.04 - I am on 8.10 and the window manager doesn't decorate the window.
Jeff, are you on 8.10 by chance? Maybe a bug with Ubuntu 8.10 on drawing kde app windows in the gnome environment? On 5/12/2009, "Jeff Lasman" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Monday 11 May 2009 11:40 pm, David Kaiser wrote: > >> I did this command: >> sudo apt-get -fu install kalarm >> followed by entering my password; >> followed by pressing enter at the [Y/n] prompt >> >> Kalarm works. I set an alarm, put it 2 minutes into the future. >> Watched the news for a couple of minutes. Alarm popped up to let me >> know that it worked. >> >> Total time to install? 108 seconds. Including download time (but it >> is a FIOS connection - it might actually take you 400 seconds or more >> with standard 1.5Mbit DSL) >> >> An issue far more serious than doing the piece of cake installation >> is that the window manager didn't put decoration on the window, so i >> had to hold the ALT key when dragging the window around with the >> mouse. I can do that easily enough, and I can access the context >> menu with Alt+Space so i can minimize and maximize, and resize the >> window - but really this is not functional from a user interaction >> standpoint. Does anyone know how to force the gnome window manager >> to decorate kde application windows? > >As I thought I'd written, that's exactly what happened to me. And I >didn't know, and couldn't figure out, the alt-key tricks. > >Thanks! > >Jeff >-- >Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services >P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 >Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only >voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: >"http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; >_______________________________________________ >LinuxUsers mailing list >[email protected] >http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
