Gtk/Gnome apps are unstable with Opensuse 13.1 kde

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#1

Hi all,

I’m running OS 13.1 KDE with nvidia graphics (x11-video-nvidiaG02) and have noticed that Gtk/Gnome apps are seriously unstable.

I use gnucash and it’s obviously not working properly, it crashes regularly with a segfault. I attempted to use gparted to reformat a usb stick and it crashed. Libreoffice looks terrible under OS 13.1 kde, the fonts are mangled in the menu.

Any ideas how to sort this out?

Thanks for any help.

#2

Running both KDE and GNOME on my laptop, I don’t have these issues. Did you check the install media? Was it like this immediately after install? Any extra repos added (post output, between CODE tags, the # in the editor)

zypper lr -d

Plus, do you have more info on your system? I.e.

/sbin/lspci
#3

Just a wild guess (after solving my banshee crashing problems), perhaps your GTK/Gnome issues are related to the same issue?

I changed “Configure Desktop”, “Application Appearance”, “GTK”, “GTK2 Theme” from “Oxygen” to “Oxygen Molecule” (KDE:Extra).

Cheers,

Mark

#4

Thanks for the help guys, I installed gtk oxygen-molecule theme and gnucash is now much more stable, Libreoffice fonts are still mangled though. Libreoffice looks so much better on a gnome based desktop like mate.

#5

Hi

gnome crash and logout of my session, have running VMWare Player version 6, skype 4.2 and Firefox

My system is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
04:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

thanks for you support.

#6

check to see if you have ibus installed.
If so remove it and see if that improves the look of Libreoffice.
(also make sure you have libreoffice-kde4 installed)

#7

Thanks for all the help guys,

In the end I installed qtcurve style/theme for KDE4 & GTK2 - all the gtk/gnome apps I use (eg gnucash) are now stable.

For LibreOffice, I removed libreoffice-kde4 and installed libreoffice-gnome (which installed ibus and a few other dependencies)- libreoffice looks a lot better and the menu bar and menus are no longer garbled.