Wolfgang Bauer composed on 2015-09-04 10:15 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
TW freshly zypper up'd to 20150831 and now running 5.12.0 on 32 bit 2.8GHz single core P4. This is hardly the first host this has happened on over the years. Every time I get frustrated trying to figure out what packages provide window decorations so that I can install something to get window decorations back. It seems like in the past it was usually something with string oxygen in package name, but I just went through this again without remembering what fixed it the last time, less than a month ago.
The default "Breeze" window decoration is in breeze5-decorations, which is *required* by plasma5-session, kwin5, and the Plasma5 pattern, so you shouldn't miss it unless you actively break your installation.
Or if not using Plasma 5?
Are you re-using your $HOME? Another decoration might be set in the user's settings then which is not installed by default. The "Oxygen" (KDE4 style) decoration is in the package oxygen5-decorations, btw.
Before Breeze, I rarely made changes to decorations since 6 or 8 or more years ago. Default KDE visuals for a long time were good, but not any more.
If the window decorations are missing, it might also be because kwin is crashing though.
This time I figured out kdeartwork4-decorations was a/the missing requirement.
Hm? That's for KDE4. Aren't you using the default Plasma5 desktop?
Not on installations that are the subject of this thread. I have Plasma 5 on only 3-4 test installations, in order to observe v5 progress in openSUSE context. Plasma 5 in large part due to Breeze is too unpleasant to use as a replacement for its predecessors. The rest of my TWs either have KDE3 or have kept KDE4 by preventing installation of kde-oxygen-fonts and breeze* via zypp locks.
Has whatever is required to produce window decorations been changing over the past few months or years, with old named packages periodically being removed without ensuring via rpm dependency something else takes their place(es)?
No. At least not recently. The last change was with Plasma 5.2, because this was the first version that used the "Breeze" decoration by default. (5.2 didn't even include "Oxygen", because that hadn't been ported to the then new window decoration system, it got re-added in 5.3)
And of course this has changed in general with the switch to Plasma5, as the packages are named differently.
Wolfgang Bauer composed on 2015-09-04 10:37 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
I just did another, and it too was missing window decorations, though kdeartwork4-decorations was already installed. This one got fixed with zypper in kdeartwork4-desktopthemes. :-p
That's also for KDE4 (as the name implies), and it contains additional KDE4 Plasma themes. Nothing to do with window decorations, and actually not required at all, not even for KDE4...
Fact is, no decorations until after I installed kdeartwork4-desktopthemes, just like with kdeartwork4-decorations for the thread starter. For both installations, decorations existed prior to zypper up and reboot, were missing after, until those two packages were added, one to each TW installation. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org