KDE Issues

I updated my KDE the other day, and it's giving me a lot of problems. When I do a startx the KDE/Arch Linux splash screen comes up, but it stops at "Initializing System Services" and then the splash screen disappears. That's as far as it gets. Even after a reinstall it still isn't working. Any ideas?

I did a fresh install of 3.4 the first time around (uninstalled 3.3 and installed 3.4). I didn't know if it was a problem with my xorg.conf so I checked that too, but it still had the same problem. Any other ideas? Perhaps I should just manually compile and install KDE?

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KDM with XGL used to start KDE issues

Hi,
I don't know if this problem was ever mentioned but if XGL/KDE is started from KDM using XGL http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl … M_uses_XGL there is no possibility to run OpenGL apps even with DISPLAY=:0 added. All attempts end with
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get fbconfig
while if I follow second method, New KDM entry starts KDE with XGL, I'm able to run all apps.
Since I don't like issues which come with second option and I would like to run software like Google Earth I'm looking for answer if someone have solution how to fix this problem.
Thanks.

Hi,
I don't know if this problem was ever mentioned but if XGL/KDE is started from KDM using XGL http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xgl … M_uses_XGL there is no possibility to run OpenGL apps even with DISPLAY=:0 added. All attempts end with
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get fbconfig
while if I follow second method, New KDM entry starts KDE with XGL, I'm able to run all apps.
Since I don't like issues which come with second option and I would like to run software like Google Earth I'm looking for answer if someone have solution how to fix this problem.
Thanks.

[SOLVED] KDE issues (takes 10 minutes to start, oxygen theme)

Hi everyone,
after today's update, KDE is taking about 10 minutes to fully start (instead of 5 seconds - i have an SSD), about 3-4 minutes to get over the splash screen,
then 3-4 minutes black desktop, and then slowly the taskbar, then the icons on systray and so on.
First i thought the changes with the "filesystem" package totally broke KDE, but no, it starts if i wait... the CPU, HDD are on idle, i have no idea what is waiting for
so long, also i have no idea what to check in which logs ... help is appreciated or any idea where i could start checking.
Also the oxygen theme is gone from GTK apps, like firefox, i have the ugly old gtk style ... (like here http://www.gefoo.org/generalfoo/uploads … 4.8.1.png)
Thanks.
Last edited by LyCC (2013-06-04 16:40:32)

Hi pbera and thanks,
i did the
pacman -Rn oxygen-gtk2 oxygen-gtk3
pacman -S oxygen-gtk2 oxygen-gtk3
restarted firefox, nothing ... after reboot however it's ok now, all gtk apps have the oxygen style (probably something wasn't updated with the oxygen package update ... who knows).
About KDE i suspected it's the Network manager to blame since i noticed later that it was completely missing, so i removed and installed again, rebooted but still the same 10 minutes untill kde loads ...
then i remembered that i renamed the /sbin to /sbin.old and the /usr/sbin to /usr/sbin.old because there ware some files in it before the update, despite
$ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -
telling me that no one uses those folders, the following files ware left in them:
ls /sbin.old/
ls -l /sbin.old/
total 92
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18880 Oct 12 2012 halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40624 Oct 12 2012 init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 poweroff -> halt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 reboot -> halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6280 Oct 12 2012 runlevel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23304 Oct 12 2012 shutdown
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 telinit -> init
and
ls /usr/sbin.old/
ck-log-system-restart ck-log-system-stop dl10k1 ld10k1d rc.d
ck-log-system-start console-kit-daemon ld10k1 NetworkManager
now, i took these files (of which a bunch are junk for sure) and copied back into the new /usr/bin, rebooted, and bingo ...
I marked the topic as solved, but i have no idea which of these files caused the issue. The only single one that was of these present in the new usr/bin was the NetworkManager, which i reinstalled as I mentioned already ... so, i have no clue why, but it's working fine now ...
[strike]edit: i wanted to ask, which package contains the poweroff, reboot, etc. commands? since those ware left in the old sbin and pacman didn't know of any package containing them.[/strike]
Last edited by LyCC (2013-06-04 18:13:02)

KDE Issue [UNSOLVED, but FORGOTTEN]

I am new to Archlinux, and have recently installed a system.
I used KDE 4.2 and not KDEMOD as my desktop.
So far, everything is going pretty well as I install things little by little.
However, I have an issue with the tray in KDE. At first I thought it was a pager, but then noticed the functioning pager on left side of th panel. Seems there is a section for the icons for applets or whatever on the right side of the panel, but they don't have any icons, just a blue square for each icon. I can right click on the icons and get the options for the applets which are Strigi, Klipper, KMix, and KOrganizer reminder Daemon.
Anyone else have this problem?
The other things on the tray work fine, so far.
Last edited by dedeaux (2009-02-16 06:08:59)

dedeaux wrote:
I am new to Archlinux, and have recently installed a system.
I used KDE 4.2 and not KDEMOD as my desktop.
So far, everything is going pretty well as I install things little by little.
However, I have an issue with the tray in KDE. At first I thought it was a pager, but then noticed the functioning pager on left side of th panel. Seems there is a section for the icons for applets or whatever on the right side of the panel, but they don't have any icons, just a blue square for each icon. I can right click on the icons and get the options for the applets which are Strigi, Klipper, KMix, and KOrganizer reminder Daemon.
Anyone else have this problem?
The other things on the tray work fine, so far.
I had this issue, it appears there is a conflict between RGB and ARGB colors over the taskbar.
you can read more here:
http://forum.kde.org/multiple-small-pro … 28752.html
http://forum.kde.org/ugly-tray-t-13764.html
then what I did to "fix" somehow (removing taskbar transparency)
http://forum.kde.org/removing-taskbar-t … 27821.html

[SOLVED] Networkmanager and special ascii characters kde issue

cannot connect to ssid with french characters like 'é' and other chars in networkmanager kde
it work fine in gnome but in kde the networkmanager dont recognize non english letters
have any one a way to use Hex value instead of ascii in ssid
Last edited by jambi (2014-07-14 00:03:43)

You need to configure the profile manually in
/etc//etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
then create a file named
(null) 1
[connection]
id=(null) 1
type=802-11-wireless
[802-11-wireless]
ssid="SSID IN HEX"
mode=infrastructure
mac-address=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
security=802-11-wireless-security
[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt='wireless security'
auth-alg=open
psk=password
you can convert from ascii to hex using terminal
echo 'ssid' | xxd -u -p
connectioneditor in kde need more handling functions to be added . i hope in next release they build a robust connectioneditor
Last edited by kortez (2014-07-07 21:15:45)

Suspend to RAM/HDD causes strange mouse issues in KDE

I suspect that this problem is related to something taking focus and not releasing it, but I'm having a very hard time identifying what, and I'm not sure on my next steps of investigation.
I have a newly installed Fujitsu Lifebook P701 laptop, set up with KDE (installed with KDE-Base). The system will Hibernate perfectly, either to HDD or RAM. It will come up correctly and get back to the login screen. I am able to log in fine and the mouse always responds correctly here. Once I have logged back in, the mouse responds correctly for a few seconds (this amount of time is variable). After these few seconds the mouse will move on screen, but when clicking it either doesn't respond at all, or responds in an unexpected way (depending on where on screen is clicked). Some examples of this behaviour:
1. Click on the K button in the task bar - Either the K menu opens, but nothing in the menu can be clicked; or the menu doesn't open at all.
2. Click on programs in the task bar - Either the program will maximise/minimise, but doesn't respond to right click; or the program doesn't respond at all (the response can be both for different programs).
3. Click on a link in web page - no response
4. Click anywhere else on a web page - either no response, or text is selected (from a single click).
5. Click on the top of a window - the four arrow cursor immediately comes up and the window starts to move, clicking again doesn't release the window.
Investigation done so far:
1. Removed every activity that is running (task manger, notification etc), the only one not removed so far is the task bar itself.
2. checked .xsession-errors for obvious errors (none found).
3. Used kwin --replace, the issue still occurs after this is run.
4. Closed every program that was running and tested.
5. Read around on the KDE and Arch forums to find anything similar, I can find a couple of posts that are similar, but no solutions as yet.
6. Done a full upgrade to the system (this was a couple of days ago now).
Investigation I've not done so far but am planning on doing:
1. Creating a new user - As the issue started on the first hibernation of the laptop I don't think this will fix it, but it's worth a go.
2. Installing another WM to prove this is a KDE issue (I'm pretty sure it is and I don't have a huge amount of space as I installed an SSD).
I can get the laptop to work again by restarting KDM (systemctl restart kdm) so it's fixable, but I'd really like to get to the bottom of it.
I've posted to Laptop fault as I'm not 100% sure this is a KDE issue, but I suspect it will be (it certainly seems to be similar to other issues that have been identified as KDE specific).
What are your next recommended steps of investigation? I'm really stumped on what could be causing this. As I say at the top I suspect it's a focus issue but I have no idea what is stealing focus and how to find the culprit.

I have similar problems since the last kernel upgrade: Prior to that everything on my laptop worked fine. After, when I close the lid (set to "sleep") the screen returns, the mouse appears to work, clicking on the panel often does not work, the menu may or may not pop up......
H/W path Device Class Description
===================================================
system HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC (VY474EA#ABU)
/0 bus 3663
/0/0 memory 1MiB BIOS
/0/4 memory 5GiB System Memory
/0/4/0 memory 1GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
/0/4/1 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
/0/a processor Core 2 Duo
/0/a/b memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/a/d memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/c memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/100 bridge Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2 display Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1a bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a/1 usb3 bus UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a/1/1 input USB Receiver
/0/100/1a.7 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1a.7/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 wlo1 network BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 enp3s0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d/1 usb4 bus UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.1/1 usb5 bus UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.2/1 usb6 bus UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.2/1/2 communication HP Bluetooth Module
/0/100/1d.3 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
/0/100/1d.3/1 usb7 bus UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.7/1 usb2 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.7/1/4 multimedia HP Webcam-50
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2 storage 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
/0/100/1f.6 generic 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem
/1 power PT06055
$ uname -a
Linux hp-dm1 3.15.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 09:32:20 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Andrew

Bizzare kde/openoffice font issue (SOLVED)

I appear to be having some issues with OpenOffice 2 and Kde. Perhaps there is some simple solution, but as it stands. OpenOffice is not in a usable state:
It works fine, readable menus, in Flux... so I know it's a KDE issue.
Any help and advice would be appreciated. (I just upgraded OpenOffice-base from the openoffice2 package.)

Couldn't get it.. So I solved the problem by axing KDE again and switching back to fvwm (I had messed up a config file somewhere before and didn't feel like looking through it to get it working.... I was new to fvwm..)

X issues - no xrandr scale after Xorg update (MBP Retina)

Hi,
I just did a full update (2014-08-16) through pacman, which included an Xorg server update (1.15.2-1 -> 1.16.0-6). My previous full update had been just over a month ago (2014-07-08).
On logging in, KDE basically was running incredibly slowly (ie: clicking the KMenu button would only result in it opening after a few minutes, and this would get no quicker as time went on - it was basically unusable). Moving out my .kde4 directory and letting it be recreated solved this (I haven't had a chance to go through and work out exactly what setting was causing the issue yet).
More importantly. because this is on a MacBook Retina Pro (MacBookPro10,x) - I need to be able to scale the screen to make everything appear at reasonable sizes.
Previously I had an xrandr script running on startup which just ran "xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.666667x0.666667" - which was a good size to view everything at.
The problem is now everytime I run xrandr --scale, the screen goes blank (slightly grey colour) - and I am unable to restore it (even ctrl+alt+F1 doesn't work to get to a console) - resulting in a hard reboot.
I've tried downgrading all of the X related components to the versions I had pre the upgrade, but I still have the same issue...
[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.9.0-2 -> 2.9.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:20] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.8.0-2 -> 1.8.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:40] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xkbcomp (1.2.4-2 -> 1.2.4-1)
[2014-08-16 16:41] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-common (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.1-1)
[2014-08-16 16:42] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-devel (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded nvidia-utils (340.32-1 -> 337.25-3)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xrandr (1.4.3-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-twm (1.0.8-3 -> 1.0.8-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded lib32-mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded nouveau-dri (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
Any ideas what the next troubleshooting steps would be? I'm using the Nouveau driver, and at this point I'm basically stuck. I'm also wondering whether the previous KDE issues were related to the X issues.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Luke

Hi,
I just did a full update (2014-08-16) through pacman, which included an Xorg server update (1.15.2-1 -> 1.16.0-6). My previous full update had been just over a month ago (2014-07-08).
On logging in, KDE basically was running incredibly slowly (ie: clicking the KMenu button would only result in it opening after a few minutes, and this would get no quicker as time went on - it was basically unusable). Moving out my .kde4 directory and letting it be recreated solved this (I haven't had a chance to go through and work out exactly what setting was causing the issue yet).
More importantly. because this is on a MacBook Retina Pro (MacBookPro10,x) - I need to be able to scale the screen to make everything appear at reasonable sizes.
Previously I had an xrandr script running on startup which just ran "xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.666667x0.666667" - which was a good size to view everything at.
The problem is now everytime I run xrandr --scale, the screen goes blank (slightly grey colour) - and I am unable to restore it (even ctrl+alt+F1 doesn't work to get to a console) - resulting in a hard reboot.
I've tried downgrading all of the X related components to the versions I had pre the upgrade, but I still have the same issue...
[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.9.0-2 -> 2.9.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:20] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.8.0-2 -> 1.8.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:40] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xkbcomp (1.2.4-2 -> 1.2.4-1)
[2014-08-16 16:41] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-common (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.1-1)
[2014-08-16 16:42] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-devel (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded nvidia-utils (340.32-1 -> 337.25-3)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xrandr (1.4.3-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-twm (1.0.8-3 -> 1.0.8-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded lib32-mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded nouveau-dri (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
Any ideas what the next troubleshooting steps would be? I'm using the Nouveau driver, and at this point I'm basically stuck. I'm also wondering whether the previous KDE issues were related to the X issues.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Luke

[kde-unstable] KDE 4.6

KDE 4.6 beta1 is out now:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-beta1.php
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-beta2.php
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-rc1.php
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-rc2.php
Packages are ready in [kde-unstable] (please read the wiki page before use it).
Arch Linux changes:
* kdelibs now depends on upower and udisks, this means that HAL is no more required: you can remove hal from your DAEMONS(), but remember to replace it with dbus.
* filelight is replaced by kdeutils-filelight
* kdeutils-okteta is replaced by kdesdk-okteta
* kdegames-ksame is replaced by kdegames-klickety
* kdesdk-kbugbuster has been removed
* new runner for krunner: kdeplasma-addons-runners-events
* kdenetwork-kget is not available because does not build at the moment
* a new kdeplasma-addons-containments package introduces GroupingDesktop
Notes:
* These packages do not work or need a rebuild.
* See known issues
Backup your data before the update!
Please report packaging bugs on http://bugs.archlinux.org
KDE bugs on http://bugs.kde.org

bash wrote:
xheyther wrote:edit : I wrote my feedback to fast. By removing hal I also prevented my system to detect my sound chippset. I don't have sound without hal atm.
Are you using phonon-xine? Please try to switch backend
Well it's weird. I left my computer for a while (and turned id down). After booting, KDE still tell me that it can't find my sound chipset and ask if It should definitively forget it. As I currently listen to some music with firefox, my bet is on a "working sound system with a KDE issue". I'm investigating this issue.
edit: the information you want : switching backends doesn't solve the issue.
Last edited by xheyther (2010-11-25 21:37:07)

Automount of SD card & USB external HDD with strange KDE pop up msg

Today I reviewed lots of threads posted over the last year and some bug reports too about this issue, but it's happening for me too. Both SD card and USB external HDD have autodetectable filesystems on them because I can mount them by hand with "mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt" and "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt". But it would be nice if I didn't have to do that.
Although I didn't notice which explicit install that I did pulled them in as dependencies, I do have udisk2 and polkit installed. Also installed udiskie as a wrapper. I've been mounting these volumes by hand before now because I feel like I'm still learning the ropes of The Arch Way and guessed (apparently incorrectly) that mounting volumes by hand was just part of "The Arch Way". But based on some threads here and some bug reports, I guess this used to work in Arch but has been causing some problems for some people lately when they upgrade. I just installed Arch for the first time (using the 2015.02.01 iso image), so I don't have any background to go on.
So what is The Arch Way for automounting external drives? I've skimmed the wiki article for this and because "Development of udisks has ceased in favor of udisks2." it seems that udisks2 is preferred. But it got installed and the daemon is running for me. The user is in the wheel group. dbus is running (though like one person who filed a bug, I too have several instances of dbus in my ps -aux output and I'm not sure if that is as it should be or not). I've done no special configuration ("not wittingly" anyway; I promise, my name is not James Clapper) that I think would have affected this.
So for a newb with no special preference, how should automounting be configured in a new Arch system? In other words, what should be my first steps in trying to solve this problem for myself? I know there are lots of different ways to skin this cat, but I'd prefer the simplest and most elegant solution that does not depend on KDE or GNOME or other unnecessary tools. I've just (with this Arch system I just installed) begun using i3wm and I think I'll be sticking with it. That said, however, it's clear that I inadvertently/unwittingly managed to get some elements of KDE into memory as the following http://gamonics.org/img/2015-02-26-1731 … _scrot.png shows. This popped up both times, when I plugged in my SD card and when I plugged in my USB drive. Any thoughts on what's going on here? I did install okular explicitly because I think it's one of the best PDF viewers, but I don't understand why KDE is reporting anything to me when I'm running i3 and insert an SD card or a USB disk.
And in the terminal, I get this output (apparently from udiskie):
[root@archippocrates archie]# Failed to show notification: The connection is closed
not adding /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0: unhandled device
mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/mmcblk0p1 on /media/3532-3338
Failed to show notification: The connection is closed
Although the volume does get mounted automatically.
Thanks for any thoughts.
-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] --
Last edited by Gamonics (2015-02-27 00:25:01)

I personally can't answer the question of "simplest and most elegant" way of mounting devices. It all depends on what you want. If you expect more exotic functionality, say correct unmounting of devices if they were disconnected during a sleep cycle, there's probably no way around udisks2. For that you get a complex piece of software prone to... unexpected behaviour. Mind you some of it is related to front-ends like GVFS.
As to your KDE issues, last I checked mount handling was disabled by default there, but you can control it manually (see man kcmshell4). Though I haven't followed up on KDE 5 developments. If going with udisks2, I'd recommend using devmon from the udevil package as a front-end (more details on the wiki udisks page).
PS: multiple dbus instances are expected, check the user names and specified arguments in the ps output.
edit: grammar. :X
Last edited by Alad (2015-02-27 17:03:31)

KDE hangs - freezes after recent upgrade

Hi everybody
Some days ago I did a normal pacman -Syu [it was maybe when I migrated mysql to mariadb, not sure] and got no error message.
From the following boot, I started noticing some bad issues with KDE: it often hangs when I try to do simple things like using the task bar to change the active program, open a new tab in Firefox, launch Okular and so on...
In these "freezing spots", the screen stops refreshing, except for the mouse pointer which I can see moving properly.
When it happens, I usually wait until it works again; I also noticed that sometimes switching to and from the emergency terminals can help KDE recover faster, but this is not a general rule.
Sometimes [more rarely, fortunately] it completely freezes and I can't do anything but hard stopping it holding the power button on the computer.
Any idea of what could be causing this?
If you need some output from dmesg or similar, just ask.
Thanks in advance

Sounds like a graphics driver issue. Can you try to backup all your home folders like .kde .share, etc. and start fresh? If the problem persists it's not your KDE config.
Try using another WM. If the problem persists it's not a KDE issue but probably related to Xorg/display drivers.

Can't log in KDE after update

Hello all,
I updated my arch 2 days ago and I cannot go pass KDM since. I enter the user and pass it shows me ksplash screen and it gets stuck at the first "harddrive" icon. Also I noticed that since the update during boot time the console gives me a warning that "Root device is not mounted in Read-Write mode". Does it have any connection? And what does the first "harddrive" icon in Ksplash represent? Also I tried to log in using KDE-Failsafe, but with the same result. I log in TWM though. So I'm guessing it's a KDE issue?
Thank you all in advance!
Best Regards,
NightSinner

Hello
You didn't give enough informations:
What was updated 2 days ago?
How is kdm launched?
How you choose between normal kde, kde failsafe mode or twm?
When there is a problem, it should be the first thing to do to look into the log files: kdm.log, Xorg.0.log or ~/.xsession-errors
And you didn't provide any infos about your video card and driver,...
The boot warning is unrelated to the graphical issue with kde, it concerns the fsck checking of the root file system since systemd 204 update; there are threads about that you can find with a search in the forums.
Nobody can guess all these things above, because nobody has access to your machine apart you.
You need to show what you tried to solve your problem and ask only after that if you fail to find a working solution.
Good luck.

Fonts only rendering as squares (KDE at least) [solved]

I'm installing my second Arch box (hurray!) and I'm having a problem with fonts. When I start up KDE (including KDM), all the fonts are rendered as squares. I think I have the locale setup properly including rc.conf, and both the 75 dpi and 100 dpi xorg fonts installed. Xorg.0.log didn't seem to give any clues. Obviously I'm missing something silly. Does anyone know what it is?
Edit-->> OpenOffice works fine, so it seems to be a KDE issue.

kishd wrote:Scottish, Try the script in this thread. Don't forget to restart X.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … resh+fonts
kishd
I had to make some modifications to the script:
Changed '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts' to '/usr/share/fonts'
It seems to have done the trick. Thanks

KDE 4.2 and USB Mass Storage , does not write data until unmounted

Hi,
I have a Nokia phone that I connect for USB mass storage, and KDE 4.2.2 does not seem to write the data to the device until I unmount.
Is there a way to force the write so it happens right away? It's annoying because I can't see any progress when it copies the data at unmount.
Later,
Snorkel

That's kinda the way linux does things, not specifically a KDE issue. It's so that the system only has to write out to the media only once, even if you separately add/delete/move 50 different files.
I think you can run 'sync' and that will flush all the file system buffers to disk.
Last edited by Odysseus (2009-05-01 01:30:59)

[SOLVED] Crackling/distortion sound issues with Skype

Recently pulseaudio was updated version 5.0 this finally fixed my KDE issues where KDE would switch inputs after every login. But now I have a crackling sound issue in Skype but only on my end off the connection. The one I'm talking to sounds fine but he hears me all the distorted and crackling. I tried the Skype Test Call system and there I sound fine no crackling issues or distortions. Anyone else have issues like that currently or know that could be?
Last edited by fettouhi (2014-04-24 09:06:02)

brebs wrote:
Some things to try, that helped with youtube on a Ubuntu laptop:
sed -e "/^resample-method =/s/.*/resample-method=trivial/" -e "/default-sample-rate =/s/.*/default-sample-rate = 48000/" -i /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
sed -e "/^load-module module-udev-detect/s/.*/load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0/" -i /etc/pulse/default.pa
I tried the one already that didn't do anything. I will try your first suggestion and see if it helps.

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