Latest revision as of 15:44, 27 June 2014

Compiling

In order to build KWin against KDE Frameworks 5, one needs to have a working frameworks setup. For this follow the steps outlined in Frameworks/Building. This should also build kwin.

To get KWin working properly on Frameworks there are many tasks to be solved. These tasks can be found in the KWin/Frameworks Trello board. If you want to work on a task please contact Martin Gräßlin (mgraesslin on IRC, email mgraesslin at kde dot org) to be added to the board and assign a task to yourself.

Please see KWin/Hacking for further information about the structure of KWin.

Running

Starting

Follow the runtime instructions in Frameworks/Building - especially ensure that you started D-Bus. Otherwise KWin 5 and a running KWin 4 might conflict on the DBus. Apart from that there is nothing special to consider. KWin 5 can be started just like KWin 4 with _x11 at end . If a window manager is already running, use:

kwin_x11 --replace &

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 = Compiling =
-In order to build KWin against KDE Frameworks 5, one needs to have a working frameworks setup. For this follow the steps outlined in [[Frameworks/Building]].
+In order to build KWin against KDE Frameworks 5, one needs to have a working frameworks setup. For this follow the steps outlined in [[Frameworks/Building]]. This should also build kwin.
-Once frameworks is set up, kde-workspace can be compiled. At the time of this writing the development happens in branch '''frameworks-scratch''' of the kde-workspace git repository.
 To get KWin working properly on Frameworks there are many tasks to be solved. These tasks can be found in the [https://trello.com/b/hY9TcRcK/kwin-frameworks KWin/Frameworks Trello board]. If you want to work on a task please contact Martin Gräßlin (mgraesslin on IRC, email mgraesslin at kde dot org) to be added to the board and assign a task to yourself.
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 = Running =
-== Xephyr ==
-It is recommended to not replace the window manager which is running your session by KWin 5 at the current time. Instead best use a nested X-Server like Xephyr. Unfortunately this means that some features are not available. For example OpenGL based compositing is not availabe, though XRender based compositing is available. If you use Xephyr for testing specify environment variable KWIN_COMPOSE=X to enforce XRender compositing (see known limitations).
-To start Xephyr:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-Xephyr :99
-</syntaxhighlight>
-To run an application on the nested X-Server just use the DISPLAY variable:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-DISPLAY=:99 xterm
-</syntaxhighlight>
 == Starting ==
-Follow the runtime instructions in [[Frameworks/Building]] - especially ensure that you started D-Bus. Otherwise KWin 5 and a running KWin 4 might conflict on the DBus. Apart from that there is nothing special to consider. KWin 5 can be started just like KWin 4. If a window manager is already running, use:
+Follow the runtime instructions in [[Frameworks/Building]] - especially ensure that you started D-Bus. Otherwise KWin 5 and a running KWin 4 might conflict on the DBus. Apart from that there is nothing special to consider. KWin 5 can be started just like KWin 4 with _x11 at end . If a window manager is already running, use:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-kwin --replace &
+kwin_x11 --replace &
 </syntaxhighlight>
-== Known Limitations ==
-* Aurorae window decoration is not working
-* Activities support is missing
-* Configuration module for desktop effects is not enabled
-= Configuring =
-Configuration is fully supported, though desktop effects kcm is not available. Please use new kwincompositing module instead.