Major KDE4 problems

2014-11-27 Thread Chris Bennett
I haven't used any KDE in a long while but my Father uses it. I decided to install KDE4. It starts up very slowly. But only the widgets and settings menus show up. No startup programs bar, button, whatever shows up. Leave buttons fail. I can only get out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Here is my dmesg

Re: Major KDE4 problems

2014-11-27 Thread Stan Gammons
On 11/27/14 15:06, Chris Bennett wrote: I haven't used any KDE in a long while but my Father uses it. I decided to install KDE4. It starts up very slowly. But only the widgets and settings menus show up. No startup programs bar, button, whatever shows up. Leave buttons fail. I can only get out

Re: Major KDE4 problems

2014-11-27 Thread Amit Kulkarni
If you want the best KDE4 experience, use a more modern machine within the last 3 years. AFAIK, Dell Optiplex GX 270 is atleast 8 years old. From reading KDE blogs, some parts of KDE4 have switched to using the graphics card for rendering using QML, and the CPU is fallback option. I don't see a