Can't install on Debian Testing about kwin-tiling HOT 10 CLOSED

Did you mean plasmapgk2 instead of plasmapkg?

Yes, for Plasma 5 it's plasmapkg2. I ought to adjust the README to reflect that.

It's German but since some here seem to be native German speakers I did not translate in order to avoid mistakes.

Das dürfte kein Problem sein 😄.

However, when I try to open the settings it says Das Modul liefert am erwarteten Speicherort keine Konfigurationsdatei.

Did you install the latest git version? That should have been fixed in fcc931c.

If you did, do you have a kcm_kwin4_genericscripted.so (yes, "kwin4") at "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kwin/effects/configs/"?

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Oh, the /usr/lib/qt/plugins part of that is one of the values of $QT_PLUGIN_PATH.

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Yes, I used the latest git-version. The version from KWin-Script-Repository did not work at all and was very hard to remove. It's possible that I did not remove it entirely.
To answer the kcm_kwin stuff I'll paste some bash-output:

/$ cd /
/$ find -iname 'kcm_kwin[45]_*' 2> /dev/null
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kwin/effects/configs/kcm_kwin4_genericscripted.so
/$ echo $QT_PLUGIN_PATH
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins:/lib/kde5/plugins/

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That's certainly weird. Can you try reinstalling with plasmapkg2?

Anyway, the configuration interface shouldn't be necessary to use the script - does it run?

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It was due to the manual copying. I removed the manually created folder and used plasmapk2. Since then it works like a charm. No I can check whether it is as good as awesome.

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I can check whether it is as good as awesome.

Probably not.

Anyway, nice you fixed your issue.

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I am very sorry to reopen this, but it was not due to plasmapkg2 for me. I have a second PC which is almost exactly the same. The main difference is, that the second runs 32Bit Debian.

However, installing kwin-tiling using plasmapkg2 did NOT WORK since kwin-tiling was copied into

~/.kde/share/apps/kwin/scripts/kwin-script-tiling

It has to be at

~/.local/share/kwin/scripts/kwin-script-tiling

So the correct installation routine for me was

1. clone repository
2. run plasmapkg2
3. ensure, that the folder is in the right place

Just to be explicit: This is for Plasma 5.

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~/.kde/share/apps/kwin/scripts/kwin-script-tiling

Are you sure you ran "plasmapkg2"? That's the directory for KWin4.

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I'll prove that:

history | grep plasma
1068  sudo aptitude hold plasma-workspace plasma-desktop kde-workspace-bin 
1070  sudo aptitude hold kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard task-kde-desktop 
1316  sudo aptitude hold kde-standard kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop
1318  sudo aptitude hold plasma-workspace
1319  sudo aptitude unhold plasma-desktop
1323  sudo aptitude hold plasma-desktop
1327  sudo aptitude hold kde-standard kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop plasma-workspace kde-workspace
1334  sudo aptitude hold ~nplasma ~nkde
1391  sudo aptitude install plasma-desktop sddm -s
1392  sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop sddm
1411  psgrep plasma
1412  /usr/bin/plasma --help
1413  /usr/bin/plasmashell --help
1422  cd ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/
1428  plasmashell 
1429  psgrep plasma
1430  psgrep plasmashell
1431  rm .config/plasma-workspace/env/set_window_manager.sh 
1753  plasmapkg2 –type kwinscript -i .
1758  plasmapkg2 –type kwinscript -i .
1763  plasmapkg2 –type kwinscript -i .
2001  history | grep plasma

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1753 plasmapkg2 –type kwinscript -i .

Okay, github's org formatting is off - that's supposed to be a --type, not "-type" (just like in #44).

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