I already tried searching, but did not come up with any good results, so here we go:
-What is the correct place to update my KDE 4.2.3 (notice I already have KDE4.2.3 but I want to update it, because the packages I installed when it became available are bit crash-happy)? It seems that the repositories have undergone some changes, and I can not currently find the up to date packages.
-Any ideas why my KDE4 desktop takes over 1 minute to load, this used to be okay couple months ago, but now it is taking ages to load from X-server start to desktop. Any insight what logs I could tail to see what is taking the most of the time? KDE4 desktop used to start in few seconds, now it takes over minute and I don’t want to delete ~/.kde4 folder.
First lets see your repos
zypper lr --details
(Sorry not with the machine right now)
Besides the normal Opensuse Updates&&OSS&NONOSS and Packman I had this for KDE4 previously:
I think the first one (the factory repo) used to update it’s packages almost daily, I would like to find that repo.
You need to disable the factory repo’s
and add these:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42
Then do Update all Unconditionally in these 2 repo’s
make sure all repos’ are 99 priority
except oss and non-oss which should be 120
see this thread
KDE4.2.* (How To Add) Guide. - openSUSE Forums
Thanks for the suggestions!
Any ideas on the second issue, is everyone else’s KDE4 starting in normal time?
I’m not sure. But my Laptop doesn’t even take 60 secs from cold to a working desktop.
.xsession-errors in your hidden /home/username
Also hit Esc. at boot to get verbose mode
also
/var/log/boot.msg
AFAIK the esc/verbose only works before window manager startup. For me it is the WM start, ie. when KDE4 starts to load that takes over minute, during that time esc does nothing. But I´ll try the logs that you suggested, thanks.
Just for testing you could try creating a new user profile (It’s easy to delete later).
You will need to login once first before you can test it properly. Don’t change any settings, just let the desktop populate itself and then logout and see how it is coming back in.
Thanks for the suggestion, I actually tried it already. It works fine with a default .kde4 folder, which let me to believe that this could be actually cured by removing my current .kde4 folder but I do not want to do that.
I guess I’ll start narrowing the suspects by removing parts of the stuff under .kde4 and see what fixes the situation. That will be slow progress though, as it requires reboot after every change, because the KDE start is okay second time around when all the stuff is already in the memory.
I was actually wondering the same thing and came across this thread. Don’t mean to hijack. 
Am curious about which repos should be disabled and if this will cause any problems in the future as far as suse 11.1 updates. Specifically which factory repos should be disabled.
For example these are the ones I currently have up:
zypper lr --details
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
—±-----------------------±-----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | KDE_4.2_Extra_Apps | KDE 4.2 Extra Apps | Yes | Yes | 97 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1 |
2 | KDE_4.2_Factory | KDE 4.2 Factory | Yes | Yes | 97 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1 |
3 | Main Update Repository | Main Update Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1 |
4 | NVIDIA Repository | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1 |
5 | devel:tools:building | devel:tools:building | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/devel:/tools:/building/openSUSE_11.1 |
6 | factory_desktop | factory desktop | Yes | Yes | 97 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop |
7 | home:thomas-schraitle | home:thomas-schraitle | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/thomas-schraitle/openSUSE_11.1 |
8 | iplist_1 | iplist | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/uljanow/openSUSE_11.1 |
9 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1 |
10 | openSUSE:11.1 | openSUSE:11.1 | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
11 | qt | qt | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_11.1 |
12 | qt45 | qt45 | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt45/openSUSE_11.1 |
13 | repo | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.1 |
14 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
15 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss |
16 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
17 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
18 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1 |
19 | repo_1 | VideoLan Repository | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.1/
With the repositories you have right now you’re set to be using the 4.3 beta. If you want to use 4.2 then follow this guide from the How-To section of the forum
KDE4.2.* (How To Add) Guide. - openSUSE Forums
First you’ll want to remove repositories 1, 2, and 6.
Good Luck,
Ian
In addition to Ian’s comments I would remove the 2 QT repo’s that are not needed with the 42’ repo’s
#11 #12
Got it sorted. After the update it got rid of a few bugs ( Menu not closing unless an item was clicked ) and added some more eye candy. Thank You for the help, Very Much appreciated.