[openbox] Window displacement in KDE4/Openbox

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Fri Nov 4 23:41:39 EDT 2011


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Gallant <jamslam at gmail.com> wrote:

> This actually happens to me too, but I only use this combination on my
> laptop (which I use infrequently) so it hasn't bothered me too much.
>
> For a temporary and irritating fix, I typically click on the cashew
> button in the panel (it would be in the bottom right corner, but you
> need to unlock widgets first I think). When that dialog opens
> (typically in the middle of the screen somewhere), I simply click on
> one of the grey buttons to drag it back down.
>
> After that, everything works fine until I restart the session. Weird.
>

Yeh that all sounds really weird.  If you'd like us to dig into it, please
make up a bug on the bug tracker so we can remember and follow through with
it.

Cheers,
Dana


>
> - Andrew
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Levine <dlev89 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I like KDE because it's complete. I like Openbox because it's fast and
> > pretty. So I figured, why not use them together, and get a fast, pretty,
> and
> > complete desktop environment?
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, either Openbox or Plasma does not quite like this idea...
> >
> >
> > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/848/snapshot1ky.png/
> >
> > If I tell KDE to use Openbox instead of KWin as its window manager,
> Plasma
> > windows get displaced. The calendar, power management panel, and menu all
> > get pulled way up to the top of the screen, and even the "cashew" in the
> > upper right corner gets dragged down the side of the screen.
> >
> >
> > The funny thing is, if I instead start KWin first and invoke Openbox via
> > 'openbox --replace', this doesn't happen, and everything is normal. But
> > doing that further slows the already sluggish KDE start process; so I'd
> > rather replace KWin fully. Is there a way to do that without running into
> > this behavior?
> >
> >
> >
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