On Saturday 05 February 2011 21:07:29 phanisvara das wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:01:00 +0530, Stan Goodman
wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2011 16:12:34 phanisvara das wrote:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:01:48 +0530, Stan Goodman
wrote: If I understand correctly, it will take activities to make it possible for me to assign a different wallpaper image to each desktop (as I had with KDE3), and that would be the most likely motive for me to adopt activities, at least initially.
nope, you can assign different desktop backgrounds and widgets already in KDE 4.4:
systemsettings -> workspace behavior -> virtual desktops
it's just one checkbox that allows you to have different stuff on each desktop. BUT i found this much more unstable under KDE 4.4 than under 4.5/6. earlier my desktop arrangements often got messed up w/o any obvious reason, so that i resorted to backing up all plasma-related files & directories in order to be able to restore them, not if, but when disaster struck.
Glad to here this, and relieved to learn that disasters strike other people too! One has just struck me now. There is no chance that I caused it.
Before preparing to upgrade to KDE4.6, I found that the system wanted to install essential patches. I debated whether to accept this or to pass on it and upgrade KDE first. I took what turns out to be the wrong choice, and accepted the patches.
When the smoke cleared away an hour or so later, I was asked to reboot, which I did. The boot never finished, but froze while the chameleon screen was still up, with the mouse cursor stuck in the center and the keyboard dead. I reset, and the new reboot ended with a black screen, but with all else frozen as before. I would like, if possible, to avoid reinstalling v11.3 from scratch; if somebody has a better idea, please mention it.
Sometimes I would like things to work as advertised.
argh!@#$@#$@ -- again! to me this sounds as if either you got some repos mixed up again, or you're hit by the evil video driver bug that causes problems with some newer drivers, mostly on 32bit machines.
NO! I had not done anything whatever toward the upgrade. As I said, I had not even prepared to upgrade, when this offer of essential updates came in. In particular, I had not even brought up the web page that contains the URLs of the 4.6 repos, so I certainly had not entered any new repos. This is the large update that always comes soon after one installs a new release of oS, and is bound to be a BIG one when the release is not new (IOW, the DVD is already old, so there are lots of things to be connected this late in the game, so it took about an hour. I contributed nothing to this particular screwup.
can you please remind me: what video driver are you using? is your machine 32bit or 64bit?
The machine and the installation are 64bit. The display chip is Intel 82915G.
and then, again, the output of "zypper lr -d" ... (sounds familiar, doesn't it?)
The (hand copied) repos are: 1) Updates http://download.opensuse.org/update/113/ 2) cd is not present 3) repo-debug http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/repo/oss/ 4) repo-non-oss http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/repo/non- oss/ 5) repo-oss http://download.opensuse.org//debug/distribution/oss/ 6) repo-source http://download.opensuse.org/update/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ 3 and 6 are not enabled. 2 is not refreshed. All are at priority 99. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org