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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 02:04:47 AM Dale wrote: |
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>> <<< SNIP >>> |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Dale, |
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> Considering the amount of changes, did you reboot the system or at least |
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> killed everything running at least once? |
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> That should also help with the stability. |
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> Also, I used the following 2 meta-packages: |
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> kde-apps/kde-apps-meta |
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> kde-plasma/plasma-meta |
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> This gave me most stuff, including the configuration for virtual desktop in the |
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> same place (SystemSettings) |
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> Start that, then search for "Virtual Desktops" and the only working icon is |
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> where you need to be. |
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> The pager thing to select the virtual desktops appears magically then. |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Update and some info for Joost. |
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I been playing with this a while and found some things. First, I had to |
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get to the settings part which would only give a error working. When I |
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got to the edit part, I figured out that for some reason, it was still |
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trying to run the KDE4 command, which was removed during the upgrade of |
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course. So, I got that back by giving it the new command, |
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systemsettings5 I think was it. That helped. Once in there, I found |
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lots of things to help get things to where I could work with them. I |
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found out that I could add multiple desktops back and at that point, the |
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desktop pager thingy appeared and worked. I guess when it is set to 1 |
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desktop, it doesn't show up or something. I also got it to where it |
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wouldn't turn my monitor off and lock the screen if I turned my head a |
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minute. Then I found out how to adjust the size of fonts in a lot of |
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other places. Now that helped a lot. I was using a magnifying glass to |
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read some stuff. I also set the numlock to on. I have numbers in my |
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password and that was getting annoying to have to turn on. |
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I very rarely reboot. After a big upgrade, I just go to single user, |
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use the checkrestart command to be sure and then go back to default |
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runlevel. I also generally clear the cache and such too. I restart or |
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kill anything checkrestart shows if needed. |
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I do have those packages installed. I emerged plasma-meta and that |
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pulled in a lot. Since I run some unstable stuff already, I had to |
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adjust some things to get emerge happy. After that, it was a large |
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download and a lot of compile time. |
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As it is, the biggest thing is that it doesn't seem to carry over |
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settings from KDE4. It seems to start out fresh just like if it was a |
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clean install. Other than that, it's OK. I still get the occasional |
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plasma crash tho. It's not as often but it still pops up on occasion. |
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I may start a emerge -e world. I haven't done that in a while anyway |
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and it usually clears up weird issues that can't quite be figured out. |
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Oh, I had to switch to sddm for this too. You just change the setting |
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from kdm to sddm and it just works. It looks different but it works |
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fine. That may have carried over some settings. It selected the user |
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and was ready for my password just like kdm did. Again, it looks |
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different but it seems to work the same. I suspect one could adjust the |
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settings, somewhere, and make it look like kdm if they wanted to. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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