Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster [RESOLVED]

2018-08-25 Thread Gary Dale
I've been back in Plasma 5 for a couple of days now. I think it was a kernel update that did the trick. On 2018-08-06 03:03 PM, Gary Dale wrote: When I rebooted my computer (AMD64/Buster) yesterday, I couldn't get Plasma to operate. After logging with sddm, the computer locked up hard

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Dale Forsyth wrote: > I've been using Gnome Flashback (Metacity) for about 5 hours now, > including a couple periods when the screen saver / lock kicked in, and > it seems OK. I stayed ad KDE3 (now trinity desktop) it never fails as it is 15+y proven technology regards

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: Gary Dale Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2018 5:03 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem with modern desktops on Buster When I rebooted my computer (AMD64

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-08 12:13 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-08-07 07:13 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't identify a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome Flashback seems

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-07 07:13 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't identify a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome Flashback seems to be working, I'd guess that it is in the

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't identify a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome Flashback seems to be working, I'd guess that it is in the flashier desktop elements. You can report a

problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
When I rebooted my computer (AMD64/Buster) yesterday, I couldn't get Plasma to operate. After logging with sddm, the computer locked up hard (wouldn't respond to SysRq or Ctl-Alt-Del) before the desktop appeared. I switched to Gnome which seems to work a little better but I was still getting