Re: After upgrade: Strange behavior of plasmashell

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Sonntag, 16. August 2015, 01:21:26 schrieb Josep Febrer:
> El Dissabte, 15 d'agost de 2015, a les 16:35:10, Volker Christian va 
> escriure:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > i am on debian-sid and my last update with breeze on hold was eight days
> > ago. Today i did a "apt-get upgrade", still with breeze on hold. After the
> > upgrade kwin crashes so i set the breeze packages to unhold and did an
> > upgrade again. After this, i could login, kwin didn't crash anymore, and
> > everything seems to behave as expected.
> > 
> > With one exception: The plasmashell itself behaves very strange. It is
> > started decorated, having a titiebar, a window-frame, and close and
> > minimize buttons. I am able to move this window (containing the
> > plasmashell) around on the desktop. It looks like, the plasmashell is not
> > started as a root-window anymore.
> > 
> > I have also tried to login to a total fresh user-account with the same
> > behavior - the plasmashell gets started as a "normal" window.
> > 
> > Did anybody notice the same behavior, and did anybody now the reason for
> > this strange behavior?
> 
> Did you upgrade libkf5windowsystem5 to 5.13?, if yes that's the reason,
> because this package is missing these two files:
> 
> usr/lib/*/qt5/plugins/kf5/org.kde.kwindowsystem.platforms/KF5WindowSystemWay
> landPlugin.so
> usr/lib/*/qt5/plugins/kf5/org.kde.kwindowsystem.platforms/KF5WindowSystemX1
> 1Plugin.so
>
> In the meantime, you can downgrade libkf5windowsystem5 and
> libkf5windowsystem- data to 5.12 and it should solve your troubles.

Maxy just uploaded 5.13-2 which should include those plugins.

Please test. Will do so as well once they becomes available.

Thanks and greetings from DebConf 2015 in Heidelberg,
-- 
Martin