using kwin on kde4.2

[t_ras]

ANy problem using kwin on kde4.2?

[Teunis]

Re: using kwin on kde4.2

The description of the package says:

This package contains KWin, the KDE 4 window manager, featuring hardware-accelerated compositing effects.
This package is part of the KDE 4 base workspace module.
This is a dummy package to depend on the new kde-window-manager, it can be safely removed.

So as you are running KDE I assume you have kde-window-manager already in place...

[Monster_user]

Re: using kwin on kde4.2

ANy problem using kwin on kde4.2?

Are you talking about the Legacy KDE 3.x Kwin? Or the KDE 4.x Kwin?

What are you wanting to do?

[t_ras]

Re: using kwin on kde4.2

Probably I was trting to use legacy. I wanted to install dekorator, but it says it need kwin, it sounded weired to me because I assumed KDE 4.2 already has it, but I thought maybe I was wrong.

[Monster_user]

Re: using kwin on kde4.2

Dekorator does require the legacy KWin.

Most of the effects in KDE are through Kwin, so you will loose the KDE4 effects, but you will have the KDE 3 effects.

You should be able to install KDE 3.5.x on Kubuntu 8.10. I haven't tried it though. Perhaps by adding the 8.04 repository?