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++ kevin On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Whoops, sorry for the other posting. Suddenly this mail got sent, and some > empty kmail windows opened. Probably due to this effect I sometimes > experience: The last keypress gets repeated all over the time, and when I > move the mouse over other windows weird things may happen. Pressing keys > like Ctrl-Alt-Shift stops it after a while. > > > Mick writes: > > > Before you read specific answers below, you may want to check: > > > > $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS > > /usr/local/share:/usr/share > > > > in your logs is shows: > > > > Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to > > '/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share' > > > > Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up? > > Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup. > > > On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > > [snip ...] > > > > > Mick wrote: > > >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > But: There are errors when akonadi is starting up during login. I > > > think it did not do this when I wrote the last mail, but probably > > > this is the problem now for the migration does not work. I attached > > > the error parts of the log. > > > > Can you run /etc/init.d/dbus restart before you try again? Your > > akonadi log complains about dbus (amidst other things). > > This service is running - I think KDM did not even come up when I had it > off once. This must be some KDE-internal dbus error. > > > > > And I looked for your posting, and searched all of my gentoo-user > > > archive, but somehow I did not find it. If you think it would help > > > in my case, and if you still have it at hand, it would be nice if > > > you could direct me to it (the subject would be enough). > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/224044 > > Thanks! Now I remember reading it. > > > > >>> I tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error > > >>> message in English, but then I found out that I only have to > > >>> restart kontact. Fine, now I want to add a contact. First, when I > > >>> want to edit the location, the country is set to Afghanistan, I > > >>> always have to change this to Germany. > > >>> Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for > > >>> Afghans perhaps. > > >> > > >> Have you tried to set up your locale in systemsettings to Germany? > > > > > > Yes, it's set like that. > > > > Have you set up your local timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock, in case this > > affects it? > > It's set correctly. I'd guess Afghanistan ist simpy the first entry in the > list of countries, and no one bothered to make the user's country default. > Or do you have another default? > > > > > - Strigi indexes some directory over and over again and again and > > > again and again. And again and again. Then it crashes, and when I > > > re-activate it, it indexes the folder again and again and again. And > > > so on. > > > > You may want to switch off strigi in systemsettings? > > That's what I do. But still I'd like to use those desktop indexing > features. > > > BTW, have you tried removing ~/.kde4 and then login into KDE afresh? > > Boy, do I hate to do this. Getting all the settings back takes so much > work. But now I did it anyways. It took me several hours, and still not > everying is back as it was, but at least I have I cleaner setup now. > This desktop activity stuff is a mess to set up. I have 8 desktops for > different things I do, each one with its own activity. That is, those KDE > plasmoids appear on that desktop only, not on every one. But while you can > send a window to any desktop easily, moving a plasmoid from one activity > to another does not seem to be possible. When I accidentally selected > Enlightenment-KDE instead of Enlightenment, KDE4 started up with > Enlightenment as window manager, which messed up the location of each > desktop. I had to edit stuff in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop- > appletsrc by hand to correct this. > > > Impressions: > > Some things are indeed fixed. > > - Konqueror now respects the setting that it should ask before closing a > window with multiple tabs. > > - Dolphin no longer opens maximized. > > - Ark no longer opens the home directory with dolphin when extracting > files. > > - And Akonadi starts without errors! Except for the last login, when again > no resource agents were found. Did not happen again (yet). > > KDE4 Problems that still happen: > > - Strigi scans already indexed files, then crashes. Repeats a cuple of > times, then exits. Syslog shows sefgaults in nepomukservices. > > - Dolphin FTP does not work with Umlauts. And I have to enter the password > twice. > > - Konsole profiles have to be activated in the profile dialog before they > show up in the menu. > > - Kmail did not save this e-mail, I lost my edits when my whole system > just crashed. Now I wonder what _this_ was. > > - Sessions are often saved incorrectly. Then some konquerors are missing, > a dolphin is on the wrong desktop. > > - At session startup, konqueror always complains it dies unexpectedly and > offers to restore the session, unless I close every instance before > logout. > > - This session restore of konquereror works sometimes, and sometimes not. > And all konqueror windows it opens belong to the same process, so when one > window dies, all die. > > - No automatic spell checking in kmail. And no English language to select, > only German. > > - When the desktop is locked, the password dialog sometimes does not > accept the password. It is all lowercase letters, letter position > independent of keyboard layout. Switching to a text console and back > helped. Oh, did I already mention that sometimes when switching back into > graphics mode, I get an empty screen, and have to reboot then? > > - Under heavy load, when switching to a locked desktop, it sometimes takes > quite a while until it blanks and the password dialog appears. In the > meantime, it probably cannot be used, but at least everything is clearly > visible. > > - Trying to move a plasmoid from the panel onto the desktops crashes > plasma. > > - This plasma stuff has its problems. Sometimes plasmoids have the wrong > position, or refuse to be dragged or changed in size (they return to the > former state after the operation). > > - I thought it was gone... but then again the mouse only worked in parts > of the active window. When I close it via keyboard, the next active > windows becomes partially responsive to the mouse. I have to log out then. > > - KDE4 eats A LOT of memory. I have about 30 tabs open in konquerors, this > alone is 1 GB after a while. And X is not much less. > > - nspluginviewer processes often eat a lot of CPU power. So I frequently > kill them with killall nspluginviewer, I have a little button for this > purpose in the panel. And system loads gets much lower. It's still quite > high, though. > > - I'm sure I forgot some. > > Other frequent problems: > > - This repeating key problem I mentioned. And sometimes I have some sort > of caps lock feature, but for Ctrl or Alt. I can remove it by pressing all > those meta keys at once. > > - After using the fullscreen mode of VMware, modifier keys like alt, shift > and ctrl stopped working, except inside an NX session I had also running. > > - Starting a specific program that ready 1.5 GB of data just made the > system hang for two times. The Magic SysRq stuff worked, although I did > not get out of graphics mode, so I had to reboot. > > - Suspending to RAM does not work at all. > > - Hibernating with TuxOnIce works sometimes, but sometimes resuming stops > with some "Opening LUKS. Killed." message, or the suspend image is ignored > and a normal boot happens. > > - I have a Radeon HD 3200. I tried the radeon drivers instead of ati- > drivers (fglrx), but did not get acceleration ([dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion > failed (libdri too old)). But thats's still be best result I ever got with > tose drivers. I removed the blocking ati-drivers and updated to xorg 1.8, > then radeon worked with acceleration. But when I move the mouse onto the > panel in KDE4, X dies instantly without anything in syslog except for a 'X > server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly' message. > > - mplayer sometimes play videos with colors totally messed up, like if > some parameter like brightness or gamme was set realyl really high, so > sometimes nothing at all can be seen. > > Wonko > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
