Today, I hit a strange KDE bug. I couldn’t move or resize windows. Here’s the cure:

killall kwin
kwrapper kwin -replace &

2 Comments »

  1. i get the same problem from time to time and its very annoying

    killall kwin returned no processes killed

    kwrapper kwin -replace worked!!!

    thanks

    Comment by Anonymous — 14/10/2005 @ 10:35

  2. Here we are in 2012 and your fix still works, thanks !

    I guess no one has debugged the issue for many years

    Comment by Anonymous — 20/4/2012 @ 15:27

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