So, KDE 3.5.2 is out, and available for Breezy Badger. What’s a nut like me to do when offered with such a tempting choice? Take it of course!
Downloaded all the packages, installed them, and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace’d X to reload KDE. Logged in, and all seemed good in the world. Who tell me say dat? Tabbed to one of my virtual desktops, and lost all input capability. Couldn’t click on a running process, K menu didn’t respond, yaKuake didn’t respond. Logged in over ssh, found kdesktop out to all, apparently spinning in place. Killed it. Life returned to normal, but no background, and can’t tab from desktop to desktop.
Rinse and repeat the above login and click process several times.
I gave up on it for a while, and re-tackled it in the afternoon by running strace kdesktop –nofork - and what do I see but a pile of lstat, open, read, close operations on some files I had in my Desktop directory. By ’some’, I mean 168 thousand. Guess kdesktop had to parse all of them to see what they were!
Moved the files back into a subdir under ~ and all was good in the world.
me == twit
What I have noticed is that alt+tab in 3.5.2 seems to be brain dead - it used to offer the list of windows available on all desktops (when configured that way) if the alt key wasn’t released. This doesn’t happen for me any more :(
Comment by cricalix — March 31, 2006 @ 15:12