the linked issue is dead old - it's more likely that you're using an abi "incompatible" decoration plugin (qtcurve? any 3rd party one, though) since debian/ubuntu has (had?) falsepositive abi management.
however and once more: you got a crash -> you show the backtrace, since otherwise this is all just uninformed guessing around.
Am Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2013 schrieb Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <edgaralwers@gmx.de>:
> On Friday 20 December 2013 15:54:04 you wrote:
>> Please try at least the latest version before
>> asking for a patch.
> --
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I follow your hint and I upgraded KDE to 4.11.2, according to the BLFS book.
> This means, I rebuilt every KDE program as well as the dependencies which were
> not accepted from my earlier 4.10.2. The result is, that I am now able to
> change my background plasma. However, I got the worst problem of "Kwin
> unstable" :
> I quote from "http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-linux/152472-kwin-unstable.html"
> quote
> ------------
> If I boot it up with the default window manager I get a message saying that
> kwin is unstable and it gives me the option to change window manager. If I
> don’t change it I lose the ability to resize, move and tab between windows.
> The windows also lose their title bar, which means I have to either have to
> use File->Quit or right click on the task bar to close the window.
> ------------
> unquote
>
> Well, exactly this is also my new problem. I think, somewhere in the building
> chain, there are incompatibilities which lead to this problems. As a
> consequence, I shall downgrade my partition to the well known KDE-4.8.2 and
> wait until KDE-5 shows up, to start then from the scratch. As I said, the
> problem is not critical.
>
> Anyway, thank you very much for your comments. And: I am learning a lot ! :-)
>
> Edgar
>
> Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <edgaralwers@gmx.de>
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