titlebars-System menu (minimize, maximize and close) GONE!

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titlebars-System menu (minimize, maximize and close) GONE!

Postby reltek » Feb 13th, '19, 21:55

Hello,

I am new to this forum and I don't know where this question would go in this forum. So, note to admin; If you need to move this topic to appropriate board, please do so.

I am running Mageia 4 and KDE 4.12. Yes, I know know... This is an ancient version, but that's what I have been using and it's been working for me ever since.

Well, my question or issue is this. I accidentally disabled or removed the titlebar for the whole system. This titlebar has system menu with MINIMIZE, MAXIMIZE and CLOSE option. So, any time I open any programs, that title bar is missing and I DON't KNOW WHAT I DID or HOW TO GET IT BACK. It is very much annoying to say the least that I can't simply click on the X button and close a window...

Please, can someone help me?

Thank you in advance.
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Re: titlebars-System menu (minimize, maximize and close) GON

Postby reltek » Feb 13th, '19, 22:48

I just found out that my kwin crashed and that I can restart it by running the following in terminal.

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kwin --replace


That works but once I close the terminal, kwin stops working. How can I keep it running the whole time from boot?

Thank you,
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Re: titlebars-System menu (minimize, maximize and close) GON

Postby ITA84 » Feb 14th, '19, 13:58

reltek wrote:How can I keep it running the whole time from boot?


You could use
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kwin --replace &

The & at the end makes it run in background. Alternatively, you could enter the kwin --replace command in KRunner (press Alt+Space)

As an aside, the disappearing title bars make me think KWin crashed and isn't running anymore, so the --replace part is technically unnecessary (but it doesn't hurt to leave it in)
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Re: titlebars-System menu (minimize, maximize and close) GON

Postby reltek » Feb 14th, '19, 16:24

Thank you, ITA84

I am not sure what you meant by ALT+SPACE. I clicked on the ALT button and SPACEBAR at the same time and it did nothing.

So, I simply added the kwin --replace on the startup program under system settings as a script. It works. :)

Thank you again, ITA84.

Have a great day. :)
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