Titlebar set too high, can't access; and window on top in all activities

[Dngrsone]

So, a little problem I've run into since last updating Mint 18.1 KDE on my Toshiba Satellite P55t-B5154:

When I boot into KDE and open up a window (say Firefox), the top of the window (the titlebar: the thing with minimize, maximize, close buttons) sits up under my task manager panel (I have it set on the top of the screen) and the window stays on top no matter which activity I am in. I have to log out and then log back in to get the windows to act normally.

Has anyone seen this problem before? I know I am set up for failure because my customizations are part of the problem here-- task manager on top, multiple activities with only one virtual desktop per...

[Dngrsone]

Okay, it looks like Kwin is breaking for some reason.

[Dngrsone]

So I found this post which is a bit old, but similar to what I am experiencing. I therefore tried kwin --replace and got the following:

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dngrsone@dngrsone-P55t-B5154 ~ $ kwin --replace
Module 'org.kde.kwin.decoration' does not contain a module identifier directive - it cannot be protected from external registrations.
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-decoration.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
OpenGL vendor string:                   Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string:                 Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile 
OpenGL version string:                  3.0 Mesa 12.0.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
Driver:                                 Intel
GPU class:                              Haswell
OpenGL version:                         3.0
GLSL version:                           1.30
Mesa version:                           12.0.6
X server version:                       1.18.4
Linux kernel version:                   4.8
Requires strict binding:                yes
GLSL shaders:                           yes
Texture NPOT support:                   yes
Virtual Machine:                        no
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1691, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1693, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1694, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1695, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1696, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1697, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1701, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1703, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1704, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1705, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1706, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 1707, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-script.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-script.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-script.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-script.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-script.desktop, tried ("/home/dngrsone/.local/share", "/usr/share/usr/share/xsessions/plasma", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share")
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1958, resource id: 67108869, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 6472, resource id: 50331942, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 42956, resource id: 50332037, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 53468, resource id: 50332092, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 62782, resource id: 62914560, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 62837, resource id: 62914561, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 18557, resource id: 50332119, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 21998, resource id: 62914583, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 53520, resource id: 10485763, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 53651, resource id: 50332154, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 55847, resource id: 50332156, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 58448, resource id: 10485998, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0

I then looked up "kservicetypes5/kwin-decoration.desktop" and found it is part of a package called Kwin-decoration-oxygen, which I have installed and we will see if things improve any.

[Dngrsone]

Did not fix. I do notice that the names of the files are different in the usr/local/kservicetyps5/ folder than the script is looking for though... moving copies of those to ~/.user/share/kservicetypes5/ and changing the names appropriately.