J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 02:04:47 AM Dale wrote: >> >> <<< SNIP >>> >> >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > Dale, > > Considering the amount of changes, did you reboot the system or at least > killed everything running at least once? > > That should also help with the stability. > > Also, I used the following 2 meta-packages: > kde-apps/kde-apps-meta > kde-plasma/plasma-meta > > This gave me most stuff, including the configuration for virtual desktop in > the > same place (SystemSettings) > > Start that, then search for "Virtual Desktops" and the only working icon is > where you need to be. > > The pager thing to select the virtual desktops appears magically then. > > -- > Joost > >
Update and some info for Joost. I been playing with this a while and found some things. First, I had to get to the settings part which would only give a error working. When I got to the edit part, I figured out that for some reason, it was still trying to run the KDE4 command, which was removed during the upgrade of course. So, I got that back by giving it the new command, systemsettings5 I think was it. That helped. Once in there, I found lots of things to help get things to where I could work with them. I found out that I could add multiple desktops back and at that point, the desktop pager thingy appeared and worked. I guess when it is set to 1 desktop, it doesn't show up or something. I also got it to where it wouldn't turn my monitor off and lock the screen if I turned my head a minute. Then I found out how to adjust the size of fonts in a lot of other places. Now that helped a lot. I was using a magnifying glass to read some stuff. I also set the numlock to on. I have numbers in my password and that was getting annoying to have to turn on. I very rarely reboot. After a big upgrade, I just go to single user, use the checkrestart command to be sure and then go back to default runlevel. I also generally clear the cache and such too. I restart or kill anything checkrestart shows if needed. I do have those packages installed. I emerged plasma-meta and that pulled in a lot. Since I run some unstable stuff already, I had to adjust some things to get emerge happy. After that, it was a large download and a lot of compile time. As it is, the biggest thing is that it doesn't seem to carry over settings from KDE4. It seems to start out fresh just like if it was a clean install. Other than that, it's OK. I still get the occasional plasma crash tho. It's not as often but it still pops up on occasion. I may start a emerge -e world. I haven't done that in a while anyway and it usually clears up weird issues that can't quite be figured out. Oh, I had to switch to sddm for this too. You just change the setting from kdm to sddm and it just works. It looks different but it works fine. That may have carried over some settings. It selected the user and was ready for my password just like kdm did. Again, it looks different but it seems to work the same. I suspect one could adjust the settings, somewhere, and make it look like kdm if they wanted to. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
