I just installed opensuse 11.1 and things are going great – almost great. Every so often, my system just freezes up on me and I have to hard-reset (hold onto the power button) to get it back. It only happens whenever I mess around with the system configuration for too long (I’m trying to customize plasmoids and get my gtk fonts to display the same as KDE fonts).
After I restart my system, the plasmoids on my panel arrange themselves in a very wierd way and I have to set them up anew. It’s not that big of a deal, but it just getting to be annoying. I’m looking for help on solving the problem, but I don’t know how to properly document or diagnose the problem. I am, however, quite sure I can duplicate the error if that helps in any way.
My system specs are: Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ, integrated graphics “Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915G 20080716 x86/MMX/SSE2”, 512 MB of RAM, opensuse 11.1, KDE 4.1.3"release9"
… On an unrelated note, after setting my panel’s min/max width, the panel doesn’t seem to want to resize depending on how many tasks I have open… is there a way to make my panel get bigger when more apps take up space in the panel, and shrink when there are less apps?
From what i was reading of your comments in another thread, it sounded like you might be re-installing. However, consider updating to kde4.2 from the Factory repo’s. It is much more stable and way less buggy than the shipped 4.1.3
Add these repo’s
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop
there is also this, but I don’t use it
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1
*NB
If you added stable 4.1.3 repo’s from build service, you need to remove them.
And it may be necessary to start with a new .kde4 folder
Lol, I just reinstalled – but I’ll do as you command!
Is it too much to ask how to start with a new .kde4 folder? I have no idea where/what the folder is, or how I go about getting a new one (without blowing up my system).
Also, the only repo’s I added were packman, and vlc - so I assume it should be safe if I just add the repo’s you mentioned without removing anything else.
You may not have to do this (new .kde4) with a new install.
But from CLI login (username = your username)
mv /home/username/.kde4 .kde4old
Just add those repo’s and then use yast Software Management filter by repo and select the new Factory kde4 desktop repo and do update all unconditionally in this list.
Like this - but this is showing Packman repo - but the same principle
http://thumbnails9.imagebam.com/3159/6da1aa31583624.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/6da1aa31583624)
Oh my… The SWEETNESS!
I’ve been messing around for a while now, and nothing’s crashed. SOLVED! There are a few nice modifications that I also find very tasteful… and the additional plasmaoids are great. THANKS A MILLION!! VIVA LA CHAMELEON!!
