I had a lot of issues with 3 monitors and recently found most of the
problems went away after hard coding an xorg.conf file the exact way I
wanted it set up. Seems KDE has some problems recognizing the
primary/preferred screen.
-- what AMD are you using? I run Nvidia because I have grown to despise
AMD and the horrible performance from its drivers and any desktop I've
used. Right now I'm running a 760 and looking to upgrade. I'm trying to
be patient because I would really like more than 3.5gb of ram, which
makes the 3{8,9}0x very intriguing... but I'm really not interested in
opening windows and watching the black window slowly draw in again,
amidst a myriad of other graphical glitches.
TDE does have some compositing built into it, and it appears to be
greatly updated over what I remember being available in 3.x at the time.
But it is also easily "turn-off-able"(tm)
--Nathan
On 2016-04-20 10:35, Michael Butash wrote:
Funny you mention this - been struggling with KDE4 and 3x monitors
when NOT using the binary drivers of late. I really liked KDE, using
that predominantly for the past few years on 5-6 montiors just dandy,
but with amd drivers setting up the screens that worked mostly ok.
I moved to 3x 4k displays, got rid of amd binary drivers for
radeon/mesa drivers that were much better (amd binary drivers were
terrible @4k), except it seems a 5 year old bug stilll affects KDE's
screen setup/placement. This was never fixed until kde5, and using
xrandr manually with a script isn't entirely reliable, forcing me to
restart lightdm after it glitches the driver about 1 in 3 times. YaY,
began looking at other desktops to defect, yet again for more ancient
bugs no one sees fit to fix.
TDE looks interesting, but being based on 3.x I wonder, as I hated KDE
back then. Does it do compositing at all? My pref was always
disabling compositing, but with radeon drivers that work sanely, I'm
actually liking kde4 now with kwin/plasma.
I was looking yesterday at getting KDE5.x on this thing, and of course
there isn't a version for 14.04. Upgrading is always significantly
painful with Ubuntu since 11.04, so moving to 15.0x isn't an
attractive option, and 16.04 seemed as big a basketcase as I had tried
it recently on my htpc (*still* can't get intel sound to work by
default!? really?).
I might go back and try Cinnamon/Mate, compositing driver bugs with
amd had made every desktop batsh!t crazy I've found, maybe even
(gasp!) unity. My experiences might be different without crappy video
drivers for all their rampant compositing.
Thanks for sharing!
-mb
On 04/20/2016 09:48 AM, Nathan England wrote:
I have been a KDE fan since the early days of 1.0. I have stuck with
it through the ups and downs and loved it when others hated it, and
rallied for it when people were jumping to Gnome or something else.
A couple of years ago I switched full time to Xfce with a full KDE SC
install so I could use all the apps I love and just not have to deal
with the horrible Plasma desktop shell. I really do like everything
about Plasma...in theory. It looks great, and on a single screen it
works great! But on a workstation with 3 or more monitors it really
comes apart at its seems.
But no more! I heard of TDE several years ago, but never looked into
it. Yesterday, I setup the repo for my Fedora 22 and Fedora 23
machines and installed the full Trinity suite. I gotta say, KDE 3
*never* worked this well. I setup shortcuts to many of my preferred
KDE 5 apps like Dolphin and everything is right with the desktop
again!
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Trinity_Desktop_Environment
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