Re: kde buggy, trying out cinnamon

Sudhir Khanger <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:38:21 +0530

---- On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:06:00 +0530 Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote ---- 

I'm finding kde has become too buggy.  Frustrations are:
1. windows don't respect panel, fullscreen windows will go under the panel.

I am yet to see this fixed for Kontact. I have not seen any activity in the bug report. Best thing would be is to file bug reports as you encounter such problem.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353805

2. power management has become very flaky.  When on battery, configuration 
is to dim, and after some time suspend.  screen does dim (totally!), but 
does not respond when keys/mouse touched.  Instead, only Fn+f6 will turn on 
the screen. Suspend seems to have broken.

I have also noticed system encountering sudden shutdown instead of suspend or hibernation as directed in the power management. This could also be a kernel problem. Screen brightness problems are often a kernel problem. One thing I am sure is that Chrome now has ability to inhibit power management which I think misbehaves from time to time.

3. screenlock is configured to activate after 10 minutes.  It has stopped 
working (never activates).

Not even with Ctrl+Alt+L?

So I decided to try cinnamon.  It seems much less buggy.  Almost perfect in 
most respects, although I don't like that I can't see all the apps on all 
the workspaces in the taskbar, as in kde.  Makes switching a lot less 
pleasant. Power management seems to work fine.

But cinnamon seems to have a deal-breaking issue for me.  The fonts on KDE 
look much better.  I can't understand why.

I do have this .fonts.conf:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="pattern">
  <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">96</edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

The config looks about right to me. Nothing out of ordinary. Maybe try setting up ~/.Xresources.

Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.

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