Had this issue also now. After closing widelands i saw that every decoration of all windows are lost (borders, window titlebar). I new this situation and how to solve it: Just restart the Displaymanager (here by calling 'kwin_x11 --replace'). After restarting the displaymanager i could start widelands again without any problems.
Maybe your displaymanager has similar command to restart.
Had this issue also now. After closing widelands i saw that every decoration of all windows are lost (borders, window titlebar). I new this situation and how to solve it: Just restart the Displaymanager (here by calling 'kwin_x11 --replace'). After restarting the displaymanager i could start widelands again without any problems.
Maybe your displaymanager has similar command to restart.