[opensuse] 11.1 / KDE4.2 Stable / apparent kwin crashing
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Hi all I'm getting a lot of kwin crashes where the screen goes black but everything is still running - even Alt TAB works by showing the apps running. I am assuming its always kwin but i've only had one "kwin crashed" messaged displayed. The only way out is "Alt - Backspace" twice except for the one time when i got the message where it refreshed itself. Is anyone experiencing this and is there a known solution? regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Am Samstag, 28. Februar 2009 18:58:18 schrieb ianseeks:
I'm getting a lot of kwin crashes where the screen goes black but everything is still running - even Alt TAB works by showing the apps running. I am assuming its always kwin but i've only had one "kwin crashed" messaged displayed. The only way out is "Alt - Backspace" twice except for the one time when i got the message where it refreshed itself. Is anyone experiencing this and is there a known solution?
Have you tried disabling the "Present Windows" effect? Typing blindly ALT+F2 kwin --replace helps too. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On 03/01/2009 01:58 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi all
I'm getting a lot of kwin crashes where the screen goes black but everything is still running - even Alt TAB works by showing the apps running. I am assuming its always kwin but i've only had one "kwin crashed" messaged displayed. The only way out is "Alt - Backspace" twice except for the one time when i got the message where it refreshed itself. Is anyone experiencing this and is there a known solution?
regards
Ian
You can work around it by disabling desktop effects (Configure Desktop>Desktop). It was happening here a lot after updating last weekend. After updating yesterday, I have been able to reenable desktop effects and it has been working OK here. So you could try updating to the latest. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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