On Monday 31 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> > Actually, instead of removing KDE 4.3, I logged back in to see if
> > anything worked. It does! Installing the XUbuntu desktop obviously
> > updated the right things, so in theory at least, I can just leave it
> > as it is.
>
> Good.
It turns out that it wasn't as simple as I'd thought and a bit more
experimentation reveals some new clues:
1. Everything works as normal in the Xfce desktop.
2. In KDE, Youtube, games, etc work fine *until* I start Amarok. Then some
sound stops working as before. (Also Einstein has to be killed multiple times
before I can get rid of it.)
3. Closing Amarok doesn't help.
4. If I log out and then back into KDE, the situation is as per 2. again.
5. I've uninstalled and then re-installed Amarok, but apart from throwing away
all my covers, etc, sound is still broken.
So I can listen to sound on websites and games OR I can listen to music with
Amarok, but not both, unless I use Xfce. Anything else that might cause this?
> gdm and kdm are the Gnome and KDE versions of xdm, the X display
> manager. The thing that puts up the "login" box. They're not window
> managers. It seems Xubuntu is happy to use either gdm or kdm rather
> than coming up with yet another one.
I must have misread the message. I get a different login screen now, but
presumably I can change it back somewhere.
--
Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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