[opensuse-factory] plasma5 "effects" bonkers
The last kde5/plasma update appears to have screwed those not wanting the "effects". I normally turn them off, personal preference. Present effects off causes a "delayed" floating effect when moving a window. Am I the only one seeing this? Also noticed kded5 consuming > 100% cpu. Only solution I could find was to reboot. Dropping to runlevel 3 or 1 had no effect ??? Note that present "Configure Desktop" does not offer a way to turn off the efects other that deselecting each and every provided "effect", but the old kde4 way <alt><shift><f12> toggle appears to still work. Is this a problem with the kde4 overlap or a plasma5 bug or ....? I have not made a bug report, would be declined anyway as I use nvidia drivers (or is that only for kernel related?). -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2015, 15:43:13 schrieb Patrick Shanahan:
The last kde5/plasma update appears to have screwed those not wanting the "effects". I normally turn them off, personal preference. Present effects off causes a "delayed" floating effect when moving a window. Am I the only one seeing this?
I don't see that here, but I am using 13.2. Might rather be related to the graphics driver though...
Also noticed kded5 consuming > 100% cpu. Only solution I could find was to reboot. Dropping to runlevel 3 or 1 had no effect ???
Try disabling all services in systemsettings5->Startup and Shutdown-
Background Services, then turn them on one-by-one to find out which one is causing the problem.
If you drop to runlevel 3 or 1, kded5 should be killed though.
Note that present "Configure Desktop" does not offer a way to turn off the efects other that deselecting each and every provided "effect", but the old kde4 way <alt><shift><f12> toggle appears to still work.
It does offer an on/off switch for the Compositor in general (just like in KDE4): systemsettings5->Display and Monitor->Compositor ("Enable compositor on startup") But that hasn't changed with the last update, it is this way since ever (in Plasma5) AFAIR. And Alt+Shift+F12 should work too, but the shortcut can be changed.
I have not made a bug report, would be declined anyway as I use nvidia drivers (or is that only for kernel related?).
The KDE developers do want their software to work well with the proprietary drivers too, and not even only on Linux. But if it is a bug in the driver, they probably cannot do much about it either. I'd say it would be worth a try at least to report the problem at http://bugs.kde.org/ (against kwin). Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
* Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@tmo.at> [07-21-15 14:21]:
Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2015, 15:43:13 schrieb Patrick Shanahan:
The last kde5/plasma update appears to have screwed those not wanting the "effects". I normally turn them off, personal preference. Present effects off causes a "delayed" floating effect when moving a window. Am I the only one seeing this?
I don't see that here, but I am using 13.2. Might rather be related to the graphics driver though...
Agreed. When I rebooted, I reinstalled the nvidia driver. Habit, whenever I drop to runlevel 3 or reboot, I reinstall the nvidia driver. Have had updates overwrite some of the driver's files.
Also noticed kded5 consuming > 100% cpu. Only solution I could find was to reboot. Dropping to runlevel 3 or 1 had no effect ???
Try disabling all services in systemsettings5->Startup and Shutdown-
Background Services, then turn them on one-by-one to find out which one is causing the problem.
If you drop to runlevel 3 or 1, kded5 should be killed though.
Indeed, when I dropped to rl 3, I manually killed all remaining kd* instances. Have slept since then and had some email probs, plus a few 1/2 gallons of Dos Equis, senses dulled somewhat :)
Note that present "Configure Desktop" does not offer a way to turn off the efects other that deselecting each and every provided "effect", but the old kde4 way <alt><shift><f12> toggle appears to still work.
It does offer an on/off switch for the Compositor in general (just like in KDE4): systemsettings5->Display and Monitor->Compositor ("Enable compositor on startup")
Ah, but not where I looked :&/. Changes affect senile memory channels differently, and sometimes not at all.
But that hasn't changed with the last update, it is this way since ever (in Plasma5) AFAIR.
And Alt+Shift+F12 should work too, but the shortcut can be changed.
Does, but I never used the "flash", cannot see much need. Problem is that it never affected my display, and now it does. I work a lot with photographic images and going thru 500-600 at a time, seconds add up. I don't need anything slowing my system.
I have not made a bug report, would be declined anyway as I use nvidia drivers (or is that only for kernel related?).
The KDE developers do want their software to work well with the proprietary drivers too, and not even only on Linux.
But if it is a bug in the driver, they probably cannot do much about it either.
I'd say it would be worth a try at least to report the problem at http://bugs.kde.org/ (against kwin).
Odd thing is, I just disabled <alt><shift><f12>, the composter and atm my display is behaving itself, working as I expect. If it bugs me enough, I will make a report. Thank you for the explanation. ps. I mistakenly ran "/etc/sysconfig/postfix" and really screwed my config. And it took two days for me to figure out what happened. It was easily recovered by restoring main.cf from backup. During this same time fetchmail choked on imap.gmail.com trying to use ipv6 and dying with security failures. Finally disabled ipv6 which led to other problems.... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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