Bug 22115 - Kwin missing at login
Summary: Kwin missing at login
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 6
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDE maintainers
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Reported: 2017-12-03 08:50 CET by Rubén Fernández
Modified: 2020-08-16 22:31 CEST (History)
4 users (show)

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Source RPM: kwin-5.8.7-1.mga6
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Description Rubén Fernández 2017-12-03 08:50:05 CET
Description of problem:

Half of the time when I log in (through the default login manager, no autologin) kwin is misbehaving and the window decorations are gone, so I can't close or resize windows. Switching windows through Alt+Tab doesn't work either. Also, all windows from different activities appear together on the task bar.
Logging out and back into the same user solves the problem.
Sometimes the task bar is empty or is itself gone along with the panel and I can't even log out.

This is a fresh Mageia 6 install.
I'm not sure whether I'm using the right lingo but I'm no software developer.
This problem has been reported by other users:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11999
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11427

Running kwin_x11 seems to solve the problem, but I haven't tried.
This bug makes Plasma too unreliable to use.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kwin-5.8.7-1.mga6?

How reproducible:
Randomly, when logging in.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in through the login manager.
Florian Hubold 2017-12-03 14:17:29 CET

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Marja Van Waes 2017-12-03 18:24:19 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => kde
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 1 David GEIGER 2019-02-18 11:27:58 CET
Is this issue still valid?

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 22:31:15 CEST
Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent
Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them
obsolete.

If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the
packager team via our mentoring program [1] or join the teams that fit you 
most [2].

[1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
[2] http://www.mageia.org/contribute/

Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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