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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] Re: Window manager problems
From:       Mike McCabe <mikem () ParadigmGeo ! com>
Date:       2005-03-30 15:23:56
Message-ID: 424AC48C.2000304 () ParadigmGeo ! com
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Thanks anyway!  I just discovered that the window manager is 'kwin'.  
Killing and restarting
it fixed the problem.

Regards,
Mike

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Mike McCabe wrote:

> I don't know exactly what happened.  Yesterday, I was closing windows 
> in preparation to log off,
> and somehow managed to terminate window management on one of my two 
> screens.
>
> I'm running "Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)" 
> on a Dell EM64T system,
> using a PCI express nVidia Quadro FX 1300 board configured to display 
> to two X screens.  When I
> killed one window on screen 1 (I wasn't really paying attention to 
> what the window was, since I only
> had terminals and text editors open on that screen), the window 
> management on screen 0 died!
> I finished logging out, and logged back in to see if that cured it.  
> It didn't; when I log in now, the window
> manager starts on screen 1, but not on screen 0.  And, while I can do 
> mouse operations on screen 0, all
> keyboard input goes to windows/widgets on screen 1; regardless of the 
> mouse position.
>
> Can someone tell me what might hav been 'broken'?  I've tried all the 
> control panel options I could find
> which might somehow relate, with no success.  I'd kill/restart the 
> window manager, but  don't know what
> it is called, and haven't yet been able to guess correctly (that 
> worked in the past for other Linux machines
> on which we had window manager problems; but it was trial-and-error 
> figuring out what process was the
> window manager).
>
> Thanks,
> Mike


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