On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:24:58PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >I've now got plasma apps working on my first machine, both from > >within other desktop sessions (icewm, from sddm) AND using Plasma > >from sddm. > > I don't have time to do a detailed reply right now, but I have a question. > How long does it take for the Plasma 5 desktop to come up for you? When I > tested (suing startx), it took a long time (about a minute iirc), vs a > couple of seconds for xfce. > I just logged out to sddm, then logged back in. Using the second hand of my watch, about 7 seconds (AMD Phenom, 7.5GB RAM).
The great thing about using a script is that you can change things, e.g. so that everything is set correctly for plasma on a system which also has all of kde4. See also http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/kde5/plasma-workspace.html (the wrapper). > > Is the issue that sddm does not run /etc/profile? > I've no idea, and for the next few days I've no time to look, nor to test that. My bash files originally came from Mandrake and have grown over the years, but /etc/profile is not something I have ever used. > When I was testing startx, I had in ~/.xinitrc: > > exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session /opt/kf5/bin/startkde > Yes, mine was the same except I didn't need the prefix because there is no other startkde on this system. > I'm not sure if that was right or not. Plasma5 started, but I didn't find > it very usable. > I am finding it less bad as I get used to it (and also I've tweaked some of the settings e.g. I no longer get the stupid transparency when moving or changing windows). On my other machine, where I fear plasma will be unrecoverable, kdm takes much the same sort of time to produce the desktop - that is on a similar system build from June. And I have never been overjoyed by most kde4 apps - horse for courses. ĸen -- This one goes up to eleven: but only on a clear day, with the wind in the right direction. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
