Active Window Border Doesn't Work

[davidv3rs]

Not sure if this is necessarily a Krohnkite issue, but the window border script doesn't seem to be working for me. This is from my kdeglobals file. It doesn't seem to have any effect after rebooting or relogging. Is there another step that I'm missing?

[WM]
activeBackground=47,52,63
activeBlend=47,52,63
activeForeground=211,218,227
frame=61,174,233
inactiveBackground=47,52,63
inactiveBlend=47,52,63
inactiveForeground=102,106,115
inactiveFrame=239,240,241

[cyruseuros]

Application Style > Window Decorations > Uncheck "Use theme's default window borders" and click "Apply"

[ephur]

I have unchecked that, and have the same result (lack of window borders)

[cyruseuros]

Long shot, but are you perhaps setting your custom borders to no borders?

Also, for that setting to properly apply I had to restart my plasma session at times.

[SamDM]

I think it might be related to the 'maximization' status of a window. I looks like tiled windows can be 'maximized' even though they are still tiled with other windows. And kde does not draw borders on maximized windows.

Notice the blue border at the bottom of the window appear and disappear by 'maximizing'.
(I use the 'no side borders' setting in window decorations)

[cyruseuros]

Oh, ok, I forgot where the setting is, but you have to enable "allow resizing of maximized windows". That will also draw the borders.

[SamDM]

Found it :)

At least for me this solves the problem. Thanks!

[cyruseuros]

@esjeon should this be in the README?

[esjeon]

Thanks @jjzmajic for figuring things out. Many things have changed since I first wrote the README.

should this be in the README?

Yes, I think the documentation should include this info.

Also, I'm working on the support for the Kwin-native maximization, which will also affect some settings.

[ephur]

I tried the above steps to get window borders and had no luck, so I continued to search. I realized there is an option in the Krohnkite -> Options -> Remove Borders of Tiled Windows. I have that selected, because it's the only way I found to get rid of the other window decorations (window buttons etc.,). This obviously removes the window borders as well. Is there a way to separate these options?

[cyruseuros]

@ephur as far as I know, only the regex-based override mentioned in the README. Use that to hide window decorations. Then you don't have to hide the borders as well.

@esjeon The kwin native maximization features sounds awesome. Wish I could help, but I never picked up typescript. Any other way I can help? Maybe updating the README? I'm guessing there are more things that have changed since

[esjeon]

Maybe updating the README

@jjzmajic Updating README will be helpful too, because recently I have not enough time to look into details outside of the code itself.

[sebastiangelotte]

I tried the above steps to get window borders and had no luck, so I continued to search. I realized there is an option in the Krohnkite -> Options -> Remove Borders of Tiled Windows. I have that selected, because it's the only way I found to get rid of the other window decorations (window buttons etc.,). This obviously removes the window borders as well. Is there a way to separate these options?

I still can't manage to get the borders to show. Any idea of what I might be doing wrong? Here are my settings:

Edit: Ok, I found what the problem was. It's just me being stupid and not understanding the UI. In Settings -> Application Style -> Window Decorations I had "No borders" chosen in the dropdown. Somehow I figured that if the checkbox wasn't active, the dropdown wouldn't matter, but it does of course.

For anyone looking for the Krohnkite -> Options -> Remove Borders of Tiled Windows you first have to enable user configuration. It's explained in the readme here https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite#enabling-user-configuration

Also, this tip helped me to get borders working on Firefox: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/9oqy5d/hot_to_get_decorations_for_firefoxs_window_when/

New correct settings:

kdeglobals:

[hiringManager]

Just leaving a comment to say that I ran into this exact same issue on a new 20.04 install yesterday, although floating util windows had borders. My solution was actually to detick the 'keep floating windows above tiled windows'. I'm not why this was the case, but my borders are functioning as intended now.

[smsegal]

If I wanted to enable this in another KDE theme, say Arc Dark, what would I have to adjust in the ~/.config/kdeglobals file?

[fabianski7]

Color themes that have the [Colors:Header] tags don't seem to be compatible with this and the border color is not changed even after writing the data to the ~/.config/kdeglobals file

Most color schemes on store.kde.org do not have this tag, so they do not have this problem. There is also a theme with the same colors as breeze without the header that was added in version 5.21.
https://store.kde.org/p/1490911/
https://store.kde.org/p/1490912/

There is already an open bug reporting this, if any fellow here wants to help by confirming the bug there it will be helpful for us to see a solution to this.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433761