Thanks for your reply... my graphics card where plasma5 kept (and still is) crashing is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) On 11/13/15 05:29, Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2015, 14:29:19 schrieb Emilio Recio:
The version I have on my machine at home is the one with KDE4. Plasma freezing/crashing, etc put me off KF5/Plasma5 and I jumped ship from my old distro to OpenSUSE (with KDE4).
So again, if you installed the openSUSE with KDE4 (13.2 probably?), your system will not be switched to Plasma5 automatically (unless you installed Tumbleweed, the rolling distribution).
If you (manually) upgrade to Leap you will be switched though, because it comes with Plasma 5 as only KDE desktop.
Btw, you can find out which distribution and version you use by looking into the file /etc/os-release, or running "lsb-release -d". KInfocenter should tell you too...
Plus the missing system tray and klipper (plasmoid?) security issue, was another frustration (I can live with that though).
The "missing system tray" (it is not missing, it just doesn't support old- style XEmbed icons) should be fixed. But there still is a problem with sometimes (randomly) missing icons/applets as of 5.4.2 (IIRC this is actually a new problem that started in 5.4). I don't think 5.4.3 contains a fix for this either (haven't installed that yet though).
The clipboard plasmoid can be disabled, and should not be a "security issue" then.
If the crashing/freezing has been resolved in Leap then I will give that a go on my work machine and migrate. I am currently using LxQT and would like to go back to KDE.
Why don't you use 13.2 with KDE4 then?
There never was a general crashing/freezing problem in Plasma 5 or Leap. If you have one, it's likely related to your hardware (graphics driver in particular). So hard to say if it is "resolved in Leap". You'd have to try yourself. (unfortunately there are no LiveCDs availabled)
Depending on your particular graphics card, it might also help if you installed a proprietary graphics driver (nvidia or fglrx).
I never had (and still don't have) such a problem here on my two 13.2 systems (one radeon, one intel), not even with the first 5.0 Beta versions.
Kind Regards, Wolfgang
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