On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:07:04 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/23/24 13:11, pete wrote: > > if running plasma wayland the vlc Kaffeine > > Firefox and Discord all cause issues > > That is the rub with wayland. Depending on what the apps use, you may run > into issues that wayland doesn't support. Discord places quite a bit of > demand on the graphics/video subsystem, as does FF depending on what you are > viewing -- especially if you are running web-apps like discord within FF. > I've had much better luck sticking to X11. > > On your install with the borked Plasma, since this is KDE, you can always > delete the config file directory and then login again and have plasma > recreate its config. However, this is made much more difficult due to the > stoke of brilliance the KDE-team had to dispense with a traditional config > directory and dump all files under $HOME/.config is a willy-nilly manner. You > will need to carefully select the KDE config files to delete (or move to > another location, e.g. cd ~/.config; md tmp; mv ..... tmp;) > > Your other traditional option for testing a borked KDE is to create a new > user and then login as that user and see what KDE does on a freshly generated > config. This can eliminate any version mismatches in config files, etc.. that > may have crept in under you normal user. Either way, they are reasonable > tests to conduct. > > KDE should be doing this, but you can rebuild the system config cache with: > > kbuildsyscoca5 --noincremental > > (short for: "kde build system config cache", --noincremental tells it to > regenerate all cache files) > > (double check that kbuildsycoca5 is the correct number, KDE3 was > kbuildsycoca, KDE4 was kbuildsycoca4, and early plasma was kbuildsycoca5, but > I haven't used it in a couple of years) > > I suspect a fresh Arch install will work fine -- as it will start with a > fresh config. > Hi David and afternoon ok on ypour rpely i hav e a new drive here waiting fro me get round to in stallling on it an 2Tb Samsung ssd first time of messing with ssd as well Oh glee watch this space or listen for the Bang Cheers Pete
