Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

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Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby th3l0nius » Feb 4th, '14, 12:25

Hello

My desktop-switcher is useless (all aplication windows are opened on the first desktop and I cannot switch to the others) and most application windows are forced to be maximized.

I suppose that I have accidently installed a package for netbooks but I cannot figure out which it is nor which prog or service does this.

Any help is very appreciated. My brandnew Mageia 4 KDE was really nice until this problem occured.

Thanks in advance, T.
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Re: Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 4th, '14, 12:51

Hmmm, please check in systemsettings -> workspace behaviour -> workspace if you have switched the type to Netbook. http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings ... #Workspace

Anyways, if you don't want to fiddle around, and haven't configured that much, you can just logout of KDE, switch to a tty via e.g. Ctrl+Alt-F3
and then login as ylour user and move away the whole ~/.kde4/ directory, which will be recreated when you login next time to KDE with the default settings.
E.g. you could use
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mv ~/.kde4/ ~/.kde4-orig/
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Re: Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby th3l0nius » Feb 4th, '14, 13:30

doktor5000 wrote:Hmmm, please check in systemsettings -> workspace behaviour -> workspace if you have switched the type to Netbook. http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings ... #Workspace

Thanks for your quick help. I had already checked that and it is set to "Desktop".

doktor5000 wrote:Anyways, if you don't want to fiddle around, and haven't configured that much, you can just logout of KDE, switch to a tty via e.g. Ctrl+Alt-F3
and then login as ylour user and move away the whole ~/.kde4/ directory, which will be recreated when you login next time to KDE with the default settings.
E.g. you could use
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mv ~/.kde4/ ~/.kde4-orig/

I've now tried this; result: forgot all settings (as expected) but still the same behavior.

Because I suspect that there is a program or service that forces this (I know this from the Ubuntu Netbook Edition - that I once installed, very long ago and far away) I've tried before to install Cinnamon and check wether it is the same with this -- it is not.

So it is seems to be strangely something KDE related but not KDE-setting dependent. - I hate it.
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Re: Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby jkerr82508 » Feb 4th, '14, 14:37

Possibly you have the netbook-kde4-config package installed, instead of the Default-kde4-config package. You can check in a terminal:
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rpm -qa | grep kde4-config

For a desktop system you should see something like this:
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 $ rpm -qa | grep kde4-config
mageia-kde4-config-common-4-0.20140119.1.mga4
Default-kde4-config-4-0.20140119.1.mga4

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Re: Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 4th, '14, 15:13

Then it still should be possible to switch away from netbook mode AFAICT.
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Re: Forced maximized windows and only one desktop

Postby th3l0nius » Feb 4th, '14, 16:35

jkerr82508 wrote:
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 $ rpm -qa | grep kde4-config
mageia-kde4-config-common-4-0.20140119.1.mga4
Default-kde4-config-4-0.20140119.1.mga4

Jim
This is exactly the same output as on my system.

I also tried a new (virgin) user account. Same same. Maybe I should have mentioned that I originally installed "Mageia 4 RC". I assume(d) that it automatically gets the same as the final release by the updates. There could of course have been left some config files on the system, that have not been replaced with updated defaults...

But Cinnamon is really nice! Think I'll stick to it.
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