Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

[Alan McKinnon]

On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> I get a similar issue, my video card is an ATI and I use the radeon
>> drivers. Same symptom as you - plasma stops updating it's widgets like
>> clocks and stops responding to the mouse. Keyboard works. In my case,
>> it's usually linked to nfs and smb mounts that went away (eg, if I
>> forget to umount my NFS media server at home and go to work) which
>> indicates a blocking issue somehow. I've read many reports on the
>> internet that krunner is somehow involved, so that might be a good
>> starting point for investigation. krunner is the thing you get in KDE
>> when typing Alt-F2
>
> So this may not be a nvidia issue at all since you get the same with a
> ATI card.  Right?

yes


>
> What package provides the kicker thingy?  I think in KDE3 it was called
> kicker but it appears to have changed to something else.  Is that
> krunner that has it now?

Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real
names of things a little more :-)

What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom
and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2?

The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from kde-base/plasma-workspace
The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner

I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although
the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect
of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and
unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the
doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun,
video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal
with mouse pointer repaints...

Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun)


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Alan McKinnon
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