1 - That nice bouncing cursor is missing( or I don’t know how to activate it again). I miss it.
**EDIT>>> I found where it is set in the system settings, but it still doesn’t not bounce or blink. **
2 - knotes - notes put in knotes with 15.0 & 15.1 no longer show up.
and when I try to add a New Note, knotes crashes with something called ‘Dr. Kongi’ error, and telling me knotes crashed unexpectedly with the option to submit a report(which also does nothing!).
Where do I find the old notes(if I can)?
I know they ‘should’ be in hidden /home/user/.local/share/ directory somewhere.
And should I uninstall knotes, reboot, then re-install it?
3 - Leap 15.2 sometimes seems to take a (seemingly long) break. Noting can be selected, nothing can by input into an application(ie; terminal, kate, etc), and mouse cursor doesn’t move. This goes on for 1 minute or more.
What do journalctl -f
and dmesg -dT say if you issue those commands immediately after such a »break«? Anything of notice? - If this is a problem with graphics acceleration: try turning the compositor off (System Settings/Hardware/Compositor), or have a look into the log files ~/.xsession-errors
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log — any errors? - When you try adding, and logging in as, a test user, does the system behave differently from your standard user?
While the GUI is stalling, can you try switching to a text console with ctrl+alt+F1 (maybe log in and start top or htop)? You can switch back to the GUI with ctrl+alt+F7. How does the system respond?
Do you use file indexing services like Baloo or the Gnome tracker/miner (Gnome settings/Search/File)? Turn those off, if you don’t use them.
(Don’t always wanna blame btrfs here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be yet another btrfs-scrub or btrfs-maintenance or btrfs-balance or snapper activity going haywire.)
knotes crashes on both laptops and the desktop when trying to add a new note.
Occasionally, it will accept ‘add a note from the clipboard’, but mostly it just crashes the knotes app.
Will teach me to put somewhat critical notes In Documents directory in text format using Kate or similar text app.
Almost makes me wish I had held off doing the upgrade to 15.2.
Just wondering if something as simple(seemingly) as making a few reference notes can’t be carried over, what else am I going to find missing or changed so that previous work is removed.
@unix111 - I don’t use btrfs. And I will try some of the other suggestions next time leap takes a ‘break’.
Various KDE repos which can optionally be added… Usually to install something (packages, framework, etc) that isn’t quite ready for distribution and installation as the default. Developers never intentionally upload buggy software, but anything that’s deemed “not yet ready” usually means hasn’t yet undergone required testing or review.
The system delays are typically caused by filesystem indexing at an inopportune time.
If you disable that service, opening new files or directories might take a bit longer but if you’re installed on an SSD IMO you won’t notice the slight lag.
Refer to my OP question #2 regarding ‘Knotes’ broken. I broke it! By removing kmail. WHY does everything KDE seem to have everything KDE dependent on ANYTHING KDE?
So Knotes back to working, but Kmail is still gone. I had to ‘break’ the dependency to Kmail for ‘PIM Data Exporter’, and ‘Sieve Editor’ in order to have Knotes work.
After that it picked up the notes I had back in 15.1.
I don’t know if Knotes requires both, but they are there and there they will stay!
1 - That nice bouncing cursor is missing( or I don’t know how to activate it again). I miss it. EDIT>>> I found where it is set in the system settings, but it still doesn’t bounce or blink.
Does anyone know why the cursor has lost it’s bounce?
It is set to do that in the
System Settings>Default Applications>Launch Feedback
But no bounce!
IMO Application windows do not open that quickliy that it prohibits the cursor from bouncing.
I know, this is general chit-chat, but my post was moved here from the Install/login/boot section.
I just read why my OP was moved.
If you look closely, my post was not about things going well, there are multiple questions and concerns and all of them were things that I needed addressed.