Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

"Moving repaints window" is set to "immediately", right? And you are using aquamarine, right? Maybe aquarmarine does not inform crystal about the moving window. Crystal wouldn't be able to render the false transparency right anyway, when the window is transformed. Why not disabling transparency in crystal completely and make beryl do the job? - Jun 07 2007
He found Bill

Wallpaper Other by carrantamaula 2 comments

Why is Tux a killing machine?
Why is he filled with anger, unable to forgive?
I thought Tux is one of the "good guys" that is just better. This picture puts him on the same level with Bill. Can't we just outlive Bill with superior technology? Why does it look like a Religion, where only killing "solves problems"? I want to use Linux with dignitiy not with being filled with anger. And I don't want any blood on my fingers by using a "killer operating system." - Jun 04 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Here is your error:
crystalclient.h:31:25: error: kdecoration.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
crystalclient.h:32:32: error: kdecorationfactory.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Install the kde devel package (don't know the name) that containes those two header files. - Jun 02 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It needs some more work to make other decos aware about right clicking on the close button.
For running kdocker see file crystalclient.cc:
- Method ClientWindows
- Method closeButtonPressed
{
Window frame,wrapper,client;
char param[20];
ClientWindows(&frame,&wrapper,&client);
KProcess *proc = new KProcess;
*proc << "kdocker";
sprintf(param,"0x%lx",client);
*proc << "-d" << "-w" << param;
proc->start(KProcess::DontCare);
} - Jun 02 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

You probably had an old version installed. Once you log out and in again (or run kwin --replace), the new buttons should be available. Otherwise kwin uses the cached version of the module.

So the issue is probably fixed by now... - May 13 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

If the plugin is listed in kcontrol but can't load, it's probably that the precompiled binary does not match the libraries on your system. Which distribution do you use? Compiling the source would probably work, but is a lot harder.
Or you can start kcontrol from konsole, then you should see a message, what's missing. Maybe you need to install a libcompat package. - May 05 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Not really. Themes are built into the binary module of the decoration, so to get new themes you'd need to update the decoration. You can download the sourcecode and install it manually or you can wait until Kubuntu provides an updated version of the package. So far the Kubuntu version contains all the latest themes and is almost up to date.
If you have a new button theme, feel free to send it to me so I can think of integrating it into the upstream version. - Apr 25 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

See if the option "track desktop changes" in the background tab active is. Uncheck it, and it won't slow down on desktop changes.
It has to regrab the wallpaper, if certain settings change. That's causing a delay from a few seconds, sometimes. - Apr 21 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

You need to disable crystal's "Cycle tasks with mouse wheel" option to make use of KDEs implementations. - Feb 26 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

No, it's Kubuntu that has Crystal already as default window decoration integrated, unless changed. For other distributions you need to install it manually and activate it in the window decoration section of kcontrol. - Feb 19 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Did you try to install the SuSE package that I provide? You may need a libcompat package to complete the dependencies. For building the package from source you need additional developers packages, according to your distro. - Jan 08 2007
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

This has nothing to do with the ATI drivers. The libexpat.so.1 is provided by the expat or libexpat package. The libexpat.so.0 is provided by a package named expat-compat or libexpat-compat or something like that. - Nov 30 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Don't know anymore, I've set up this only for demonstration.
Deactivate overlay, use white color for the title bars, set fade to 40% and blur to 2 or 3. Should give a similar effect... - Nov 02 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

That's no overlay at all, just transparency with some "background blur". - Nov 02 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Because it is setted up like this. You can remove the button spacing in the window decorations window in the buttons tab, where you can add, remove or reorder the buttons of the titlebar. - Oct 15 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Aktivate in the "Overlay Tab" the simple lighting. - Sep 18 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I don't know what is causing the recreation of the wallpaper image in crystal. Do you have different wallpapers set? Or maybe another program handling the desktop?

The rendering of the decoration is really fast when the wallpaper is acquired. - Aug 12 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

That's because you have "track desktop changes" activated in crystal.

The deco has to keep a modified copy of the wallpaper to be able to draw the titlebar so fast. When you change the desktop and have another wallpaper it has to regenerate the copy which takes time. :( If you don't need the "track desktop changes" option, try deactivate it. - Aug 09 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Thank you for the hint. Right-click on the maximize button maximizes the window horizontally, middle click maximizes vertically. This is the default and it is working perfectly fine for me. Where do you have a problem?

But I noticed that the settings have absolutely no effect, that means you cannot set it to maximize vertically on right-click. I may fix this in the next release. - Aug 09 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

There is a compat-expat-something package in SuSE that provides the very file and then it should work. - Aug 08 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

http://www.vuni.net

Greetings, Sascha - Aug 08 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

No. :( This is hardcoded in the button theme, how much space there is to the top border. - Jul 27 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Yes, my rpm won't work, because it is comiled under KDE 3.5, so it is not binary compatible with 3.4.

Please send me the error messages via email. I think, you miss some header files, which are in the messages. Search for the packages in Mandriva and install the package that provides the missing header files. - Jul 13 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

http://www.vuni.net - Jul 05 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Sorry, you need the expat-compat package. search for expat in the SuSE package manager. SuSE 9.3 and SuSE 10.1 packages seem not to be that compatible. But then it should work. - Jun 30 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Again, kubuntu 6.06 already has it installed as the default window deco, and it has the checkbox for transparency disabled. Open the crystal configuration dialog, move to the background tab and enable transparency. Make sure the values are configured correctly for transparency.
Or what is your problem? You don't need to restart KDE, a 'kwin --replace' is only needed, when you update the crystal package. - Jun 28 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

How about "Enable Transparency" in the Background Tab? - Jun 23 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

This means you already HAVE the deco installed, since it comes with Kubuntu 6.06! It even is the default decoration, so if you still have it selected, choose the vista button style in the crystal configuration dialog. - Jun 23 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Kubuntu already provides the crystal windeco in the kwin-style-crystal package. You cannot install my debian package and the kubuntu package the same time. The Kubuntu package is actually newer at the moment. So keep it. :) - Jun 18 2006
Crystal-GL

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 175 comments

Sorry, Crystal got an update to be able to handle every kind of image ratio. Crystal-GL lacks of this, so it can only handle square buttons of a specific size. It's not just to add the images, the functionality is missing too. And it's not just adding code.

You could try to port the crystalbutton.cpp from crystal to crystal-gl. I am very sorry to say, that I don't want to do this at the moment. I abandoned crystal-gl, and don't want to make major changes to it, because I NEVER GOT IT STABLE ON ANY PC. Everywhere there were a lot of problems with OpenGL in the deco, that's why I don't work on it anymore. With AIGLX/XGL this deco will not be necessary anymore.


- Jun 05 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

http://www.vuni.net - May 22 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

http://www.vuni.net - May 22 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It's the "exquisite" icon theme: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=14788 - May 05 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I don't fix this. :(
You probably use the Vista button theme, which has already coloured buttons. I can tint the buttons in another color, but if there already is a color, it is mixed, but not replaced. It is not easily possible to change the color in software. Most button themes have whitish buttons, so I can tint them, but not the Vista theme. You'd need to create new buttons, which you can, because you can download the source. - May 04 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

My rpms are not built for Whitebox Linux, so I can only advise you to try to build the decoration from source. Where did you get a 0.9.7 rpm package? - Apr 19 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

What distribution are you using? You should use one, that provides kde>=3.2, or it won't work well. You can't even compile the sources. - Apr 19 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Yes, you are absolutely right about all that. What I don't like:

To list hundrets of packages here, though making myself a bit responsible for keeping them up to date. I don't want to list outdated packages here, nor want to run after more current ones from their packagers.

Except for the Slackware package I create the packages myself, so they are never outdated

There are a hundred of distros out there, most for x86 as well as for amd64, sparc, etc...
Isn't it more suiteable that users compile themself, if they don't use a mainstream distro, than to list thousands of packages here?

I think, I have covered 99% of all distros out there.

The main point is just, that I don't want to list hundreds of packages for non -mainstream-distros, and having to care for them being up-to-date. As I said, this is the job of the distribution itself. Of course I'd rather see the package listet here, instead of a separate entry. But the distributions should be responsible, not me.

I have listet your package in the list, because it really won't hurt. But I may remove it, when it is too obsolete.

Thanks.
- Apr 17 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It is not my duty or that of kde-look.org, to provide packages for every distribution. I have packages for the most important distributions, but of course I cannot care for all. It should be Debian that has it for 64 bit packages.
If you want to add a new entry, feel free to, but I don't like it either, because it's just not what kde-look is meant to be for. - Apr 17 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

What exactly do you mean? You already can select round borders for the bottom side of the window. - Apr 17 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I can't because I lack of such a system. You can mail me, what you did, and what error messages came up, maybe I can help you. - Apr 14 2006
SVG Templates

Various Stuff by arenyart 4 comments

I am no designer. I love the buttons, but I am unable to create the missing ones, like the hovered and pressed state. I can extract your three buttons, but they do not make a complete button theme. - Apr 09 2006
SVG Templates

Various Stuff by arenyart 4 comments

Did you create the title bar images yourself? If you created them yourself, would you mind to provide me with a complete set of images? I could include them in my crystal window decoration theme as a custom button theme. I like your buttons a lot. - Apr 08 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

If you update the deco while kde is running, you need to restart at least kwin to make the changes take effect, otherwise kwin would use the old installed version.

Crystal uses only cpu when the windows are moving.

Crystal uses the default title bar color, which can be set up in the colors section of kcontrol. - Apr 05 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

What would be the difference to Dekorator then, except for the transparency (which a lot of people disable)? Too much flexibility is hard to control.
Btw., crystal creates the configuration file ~/.kde/share/config/kwincrystalrc, save this as your preset. ;) - Mar 29 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Yes, the Mandriva package should work. - Mar 29 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Did you check "track desktop changes" in the background tab? It should do the requested, but is only recommended if you really need it, if you have different wallpapers on your workspaces. - Mar 27 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Okay, it is on my todo list. Thanks. - Mar 15 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Would you mind to try the crystal-0.9.9b sources, and mail me the complete output of `make` as well as the config.log file in the source directory?
It compiles cleanly in my FreeBSD 6 installation. - Mar 14 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I can reproduce the first error on my FreeBSD machine, a make configdialog.h infodialog.h fixes it.
It's odd, but after a make clean && make this error is gone!?
I can't reproduce the linking error, mine compiles, links and runs fine. :-|
I have FreeBSD 6 and KDE 3.4. Which version of KDE do you use? - Mar 11 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Crystal-0.9.2 is in the FreeBSD Ports, and they have two little patches in their Makefile.

Maybe you can change the /usr/ports/x11-themes/crystal/Makefile file to use 0.9.9 instead of 0.9.2 (and correct the md5sums in the distinfo file too)?

Maybe just adding a -lpthreads to the compiler works? I will try to make it on a FreeBSD machine, soon. - Mar 11 2006