Dear maintainer,
the link /usr/binkwin -> /usr/bin/kwin_x11 solves the problems here.
Thank you for the help.
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:03:39 -0400 Scott Kitterman
<deb...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 07:00:02 PM Brendon Higgins wrote:
> > This doesn't seem to be fixed. I now have three separate machines, all
> > tracking testing with a sprinkle of unstable packages (which
includes those
> > for kwin and kde-window-manager), none of which run kwin_x11 at
login. They
> > do all have the correct x-window-manager alternative set, and I can
> > manually start kwin_x11 after login.
> >
> > >From my investigation, the problem is that ksmserver, which is
what starts
> > >the
> > window manager, by default attempts to find the "kwin" binary, but this
> > binary no longer exists. Evidence for this is that I see
> > 'KSMServer::wmProcessChange: Window manager "kwin" failed to
launch' in my
> > .xsession-errors file, and examining the source code
> >
(http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/workspace-apidocs/plasma-workspace/html/ksmserv
> > er_2startup_8cpp_source.html, lines 233 and 234) suggests this
really is the
> > name of the binary ksmserver is looking for.
> >
> > If correct, I should be able to work around the issue by (as root)
creating
> > a link /usr/bin/kwin that points to kwin_x11. Indeed, I just
checked, and
> > that does appear to work.
>
> I've checked here and adding the symlink should be sufficient. I've
reopened
> this bug out of the several to cover it. Once the current kwin upload
> migrates, I'll upload another revision that adds it.
>
> Scott K
>
>
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