So I did the ultimately foolish thing a few weeks ago… I decided to edit my system configuration under the influence of alcohol.
Basically, I’ve managed to change some setting so that whenever I’m dragging a window, if my cursor is near the edge of the screen - it skews the whole screen, as if getting ready to box-flip to the next desktop. I turned off the ability to switch desktops by dragging windows… And I’ve checked through all of the window configuration options, everything in the control panel… I genuinely have no idea what I did?
Does anybody know what I’ve done? I understand that, for a first post, this is just abysmally stupid, but I would really appreciate the help! It’s kinda annoying having my screen deform whenever I try and move windows around the screen! :shame:
P.S: I’m not sure how well I’ve described what I mean by the “screen skewing”, let me know and I’ll attach a screenshot if necessary.
P.P.S: OpenSUSE 12.1, if it’s relevant at all
Hmmm … Try changing the settings in Systemsettings > Workspace Behaviour > Screen Edges for “Window Management”. There are two checkboxes. The first says
] Maximize windows by dagging them to the top of the screen
And the second:
] Tile windows by dragging them to the side of the screen
Are they unchecked?
(OK, at least there are these two checkboxes in KDE 4.8, not sure about earlier releases.)
If that is not it, what about the “Active Screen Edge Actions” in the same place as mentioned above? Is anything set there, like “Show Desktop” or “Show Dashboard”? Although, none of these actions should be triggered when dragging windows.
Those tickboxes are checked, but un-ticking them (and applying changes, obviously) doesn’t change the screen-skewing.
Same as some of the screen-edge-actions - there are some, but getting rid of them doesn’t change the screen-skewing.
I’m just now trying to take a picture to show what I mean, but finding out that print-screens are impossible when dragging windows. I’ll attach a picture as soon as I work out a way around that
That was a good idea - got a print-screen now http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3243/snapshot4y.png
You can see at the top, it does actually show the desktop that is above the current one. But again, you cannot change desktop by dragging windows. That option is definitely disabled.
That is not a feature of the KDE desktop! That is just a bugged mess of various desktop effects. I can spot rudiments of the desktop cube, Window geometry, and everything going transparent.
In other words, there is not that one setting that needs to be unset to undo that, because, well, that is not a KDE feature. It looks more like trying to hunt down that one shot settings file, which can be some arduous task. Maybe you could try and see what happens when you trash the KWin settings and then start a new session. The settings should be in:
~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc
If that fails, then try to trash anything in that directory with ‘kwin’ in its name.
Good to hear that everything is back to normal. If you still have the old KWin config file, then nothing prevents you from opening it in KWrite or so and comparing it with the new config file. Maybe that gives you some kind of hint.
