To KDE 4.1 Users

To all who use KDE 4.1?
Do you just put up with the graphical glitches when using desktop effects or is there a work around for them.
The little glitches like when you close a terminal it leaves an out line on the desktop of the window , and when you first log in the screen is garbles till you right click. I am using an Nvidia card and have tried it on 3 diff hard ware configs and all have the same issues, which is bad because i quiet like KDE but these little things annoy the fuck out of me.
ANy ideas?
Last edited by smakked (2008-11-18 12:53:40)

smakked wrote:
Here is my xorg at the moment
I have tried it on 7900gt, 8800gt and 8800gtx and they all have the same issues.
But at the moment i am running xrender and that has helped a little but still get weird stuff going on. Maybe someone can help out here
bash-3.2# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G71 [GeForce 7900 GT/GTO]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "PixmapCacheSize" "300000"
Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Make a Xorg.conf according to this section of this guide: http://translate.google.com/translate?u … l=el&tl=en
the translation of google translate is crappy but you will understant , in general, what the author means.

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bindro=/home/$user/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
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bindro=/home/$user/.kde3/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
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env
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http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop … 00390.html:
Linus wrote:
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This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
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use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
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Yeah - you tell 'em Linus!

i agree that GNOME desktop is not exactly more lightweight than KDE is while providing the same features, it's totally the opossite. just take a look how scattered its parts are and yet doesn't even come with a proper default browser which is - at least in my opinion - an essential part of the DE. that said, how many additional packages do you need to install to get all the features combined in KDE with just kde{libs,base}?
going even farther down the ladder, i have the choice to use which WM i'd like to use with the GNOME desktop. what the heck? none of them is optimized for all features, right? so why not combine all these into one and do what's best to fit the DE image people build up around GNOME? shouldn't the default be all i need?
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What is GNOME?
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
so it's only half a DE and the other half is meant to be a library of things one could use to build applications, as i understand it.
i remember i tried GNOME desktop 2.10 a while back, ok it had a panel to modify keybindings but only for those predefined. i actually needed to install gnome-config-editor to add custom ones, i bet the editor itself was bigger than the whole thing in GNOME. only one example i remember dearly.
oh well, ignore me. i just became a happy KDE user soon after GNOME 1.4 was declared deprecated.

Petition to Synaptics about Linux drivers

To Synaptics Corporation:
I am writing this on my new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro which comes with a beautiful screen and your Synaptics Clickpad. I have created this petition because there are a lot of problems with your hardware on Linux that are frustrating, time-wasting, and distracting.
I’ve been using your Trackpads happily on Linux for years, but with your new model, things are such a mess that they get in the way of my ability to work. What if Linux users added up all the time they have collectively wasted and sent you the bill? Given that Linux on the desktop has more marketshare than the Mac, the total number would have a lot of zeros. With the suffering I’ve been through, I’d sign up for $200 / year.
I know you spend most of your effort working on the Windows drivers, and that is fine because it is cheaper to maintain Linux drivers. The community will help you. I read you’ve written a Linux driver, but you never made it available. You are apparently happy to write something no one uses. There is a free driver Synaptics Linux kernel driver written for your users, but it is buggy with newer hardware and you aren’t helping fix it.
I wrote a full review of Linux on my new hardware talking about the problems with your mouse in more detail. The key point is that your new devices with an integrated button require smarter software to be usable. Well, now that you’ve pushed this new hardware of dubious benefit, what are you going to do? I create this petition to ask you to do three things:
Release a copy of your proprietary Linux driver under the GPL and publish it somewhere where it can be used as a reference.
Find a smart kernel engineer from somewhere in your 550-person company and have them help maintain the existing Linux driver.
Help ensure the Gnome, KDE, and XFCE user interfaces allow customers to configure the gestures and other advanced features. While you wait for the magic that is Windows 9, you must have some free time.
We can wonder why Linux on the desktop hasn’t arrived like it has for cellphones and servers, but in the meanwhile, it would be nice if you made sure the effing mouse works out of the box.
If you are frustrated with Synaptics hardware on Linux, sign this petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/synaptics-corporation-help-maintain-linux-drivers

I absolutely agree and I doubt why for over a year this topic here is left without any official answer from Lenovo.
I am also *asking for releasing drivers available for Windows so I could make use of them on Linux*.

"Tab Completion" closing console sessions

Starting this morning I find that pressing the TAB key terminates console sessions. For instance, running KDE as a user if I run "konsole", then su to root - pressing tab will return me to user console and pressing tab again will close konsole app (Session shell exited with signal 11).
A text console (ctl-alt-f1) will also terminate pressing tab so not an X problem.
I did a pacman -Suy yesterday and sed, dbus and vte packages were updated but I can't see anything in those. Dodgy keyboard? I don't know much about termcaps so am a bit stuck.
A nuisance as I use tab completion quite often.
EDIT: Hmm, rebooted and problem has gone!

byte wrote:Can you specify somewhere to use a login shell (bash -l)?
Normally .bashrc gets sourced by .bash_profile, and unless it's a login shell nothing will happen.
I tried running "bash -l" but the shell I get doesn't have bash completion either : (

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