I continued my experimenting. startx will get me a GUI with my application icons. It will not provide me with decorations and menus. No command bar at the bottom. Right click has no useful effect.
I opened a folder (on the desktop) and navigate, via folders, to get to an executable xterm. I then right click that and make a desktop icon. The same for firefox. I can now open the xterm and type in "kwin --replace", which gives me decorations on some applications (but not the xterm). I get the following complaints when I do the kwin --replace: /Desktop$ kwin --replace & [1] 5000 dad@dad314159:~/Desktop$ Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" kbuildsycoca4 running... QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied Setting the name of 0x12b1240 to "org.kde.ActivityManager.Resources.Scoring" Creating directory: "/home/dad/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/" KActivities: Database can not be opened in WAL mode. Check the SQLite version (required >3.7.0). And whether your filesystem supports shared memory Service started, version: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.81' OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 11.2.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 Driver: Intel GPU class: i965 OpenGL version: 2.1 GLSL version: 1.20 Mesa version: 11.2 X server version: 1.18.3 Linux kernel version: 4.4 Requires strict binding: yes GLSL shaders: yes Texture NPOT support: yes Virtual Machine: no detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut keys KActivities: FATAL ERROR: Failed to contact the activity manager daemon Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase dad@dad314159:~/Desktop$ plasma-desktop plasma-desktop: command not found dad@dad314159:~/Desktop$ QMetaProperty::read: Unable to handle unregistered datatype 'KWayland::Server::SurfaceInterface*' for property 'KWin::Toplevel::surface' I reinstall kwin and then kwin*. Numerous files are needed. I then do "sudo apt-get build-dep kwin" and get still more files installed. None of this fixes anything! Still experimenting -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1525699 Title: Error message "/sbin/plymouthd: not found" is shown on booting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1525699/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
