Kde43rc on 11.1 - lost input and lost windows decorations

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1

Since last update from factory kde43 repo I lost any

  1. input (but mouse)
  2. window decorations (title bar, system menu, close button …)

I was able to create a new user and to verify this for this new user also.
But starting another window manager all works as expected even konsole,kwrite etc.

2

Your installation of kde 4.3 seems to be incomplete and is missing either kdebase4-workspace or kdebase4-runtime and related packages.
To complete the installation, open YAST-install software, and then choose the filter - Repositories. Choose your KDE 4.3 repository, and right click on any package on the right, and choose all in the list - update if newer version available.
Best Wishes

3

These packages were installed already. Even after a forced reinstall it was not better. So I changed direction: I decided to upgrade to openSUSE 11.2 factory.

I know zypper isn’t perfect in dist-upgrading therefore I deinstalled as many packages as I could. To my astonishement it also deinstalled zypper even if I had only selected graphical pattern to deinstall. (I was not able to control the long list…)

So I started Ubuntu, then

  1. chroot to openSUSE patition
  2. wget zypper from 11.2 and rpm -i zypper
  3. changed repos to factory
  4. zypper ref
  5. zypper in zypper
  6. zypper -v dup

Then there was not enough space for device stoudt to generate initrd of 2.6.30 kernel.
So I restarted ubuntu and on runlevel 3 it was possible to mkinitrd in a chroot.
And now I am at work with

  1. zypper in -t pattern kde4
    …
4

I did a successfull dist-upgrade following above steps. All works again.

But: Where to put a xrandr script to activate an extern Monitor ?

in /etc/kde4/kdm
does not work …

5

try saving it here:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings

Xorg RandR 1.2 - ThinkWiki

6

no that’s for first login, Site:
“To configure xrandr automatically during the first login, save this script to your computer as /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings”

I want to do it before. Normally therefore is the script:
/etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup
(works in Debian based distros)