[Prexy]

I used the non-QT44 repo because that was the last post in the other thread - no one contradicted it. There were dependency problems with a couple (2 or maybe 3) apps that I use rarely or not at all. I told yast to not update them. A couple of repos were not accessible. They had nothing to do with this issue, but I said skip the problem updates.

Bottom line is: the non-QT44 repo worked fine for me; no checkerboard, no lost settings.