My KDE4.3 seems to be lagging a little compared to how KDE4.2.4 performed. At the moment I’m not having a good experience with 4.3 as it’s proving unstable and seems slower. It seems to take 0.5 s to respond to a click on the menu or panel.
Are others experiencing this or is my installation up the creak?
Only an improvement for me.
Did I read another thread related to this that you posted?
Do we need to check your repo’s (zypper lr -d) and run through all the possibilities? I would look through software management and filter by repo and select System, scroll right down and see if there are any Red packages.
Here are my repos
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
---+--------------------------+---------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | KDE42_Community | KDE42 Community | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42 |
2 | KDE4_Community | KDE4 Community | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ |
3 | KDE4_Factory | KDE4 Factory | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ |
4 | KDE:42 | KDE:42 | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ |
5 | OpenOffice_Stable | OpenOffice Stable | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/ |
6 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
7 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.1/ |
8 | openSuSE11.1_Factory | openSuSE11.1 Factory | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/Factory/openSUSE_11.1/ |
9 | repo | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/ |
10 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 120 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/ |
11 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 120 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ |
12 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/ |
13 | repo_1 | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/ |
14 | system:wicd | system:wicd | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/wicd/openSUSE_11.1/
I performed the upgrade as instructed in your howto. Removed the KDE42 repos and added the KDE4 ones then did an update all if newer on the two KDE4 repos.
I still have a few red packages but they don’t have anything to do with KDE and are not part of the KDE4 repos. For example I have the kernel packages in red as I haven’t upgraded to the latest release, there are a few other reds which are specific apps not part of the openSUSE release like the hard disk monitor and parking utility etc.
EDIT: I’ve left the KDE42 repos in only in case the move over to KDE4 didn’t work for some reason. I will now remove them. Also, the other repos that are listed but disabled are there for me to do a manual update of a specific app as and when I am ready.
Red packages are not updates, they are either roll-backs, or perhaps a manually installed .rpm (eg; Virtual Box)
It’s unlikely you have Red kernel packages.
I don’t want to come across in a condescending way here: But you are sure it’s slower!?
Ignore my comment about the kernel packages being red they are actually in blue. Sorry it was late when I typed that.
I do know that other users with the 945 chipset have issues I cannot replicate. So far my 965 has been perfect in every way.
Yes I read about the 945 chipset problems too. Things seems to have settled down now once I disabled the desktop effects which were also causing screen freezes (see my other topic).
I had all sorts of problems with 4.2 on a Thinkpad r60e, the worst being continual lockups, which I could never resolve. Update to 4.3 has fixed all those problems and is much faster. The only real problem was when I was experimenting with desktop effects and my panels, which I have set to autohide, would not always pop out when needed, just a sort of blue bar indicating where they were hidden, as I do not really use the effects though, as I said I was just experimenting, I just turned them all off and everything is back to good.