[CS-FSLUG] Try Kubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2 Nathan and all others interested

[EnzoAeneas]

When my session would load and compiz would start, screensaver would
attempt to run with an OpenGL screensaver before the desktop would
finish loading. Then the screen would freeze. I would have to use
<CTRL>+<ALT>+<BACKSPACE> to kill the display manager and XServer. This
repeated itself every time I tried to login.

So I dug deep into the .kde directory for a configuration file (ksm
something). I opened it nano and deleted and adjusted all of the
entries relating to the screensaver  program that ran (kwave.kss).
Since the entries reference array elements and there was a "count="
entry, I decremented that by one (1), and  decremented the indices of
all of the elements after the offending entries.

I restarted X and voila! I had my desktop back!

--Kevin

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:12 AM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2008 11:02:12 pm EnzoAeneas wrote:
>> i love it myself. I haven't had any problems yet and it runs faster
>> with compositing turned on (Compiz Fusion). I had one glitch with the
>> session manager and compiz, but I was able to edit the session
>> manager's configuration file to get around it.
>
> What was the glitch and what did you do to fix it?
>
> My only problem was after I installed on my desktop using the alternate CD, I
> couldn't get an X-session. My monitor was complaining "video mode not
> supported" I tried a myriad of things and finally got X partially working by
> using the "auto" in the menu of the monitor settings. That gave me little more
> than half a desktop; enough to open a console and run the restricted drivers
> app,  and install the restricted drivers for my graphics card. Other than
> that, I haven't had any problems either.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
>> > Nathan, you should give Kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.1.2 a try. So far it's
>> > blown me away.
>> >
>> > I love the new alt-tab windows switcher. Sometimes I'll open a bunch of
>> > windows just to see it. :-)
>
>
> --
> David M.
>
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