frustrations w/ KDE 4.4

[Luke Monahan]

Hi,

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 14:48:32 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> 1.  plasma-desktop does not start automatically:  Every time I
> login/restart my computer I am forced to manually start plasma-desktop.
>  I've noticed that Lucid does not have this problem.  The problem started
> w/ KDE 4.4 Beta 2 and continues in the RC
> 
> 2.  plasma-desktop crashes continuously:  I don't know exactly what is
> going on here but it seems no matter what I am doing plasma-desktop
> crashes and I get a friendly notification.  I've noticed this can happen
> when I am not doing anything or when I using it pretty heavily.

I found some themes crash a lot, as they are not updated for 4.4. Using the 
default (oxygen) has been much more pleasant. I would guess some widgets may 
be the same.

At a last resort, I would blow away the entire plasma configuration.

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 15:06:18 Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> You have to delete ~/.kde/share/config/krunnerrc to get this one to stop. I
> was getting this until I nixed that file the other day. No crashes since
> then, well maybe one, but not like every other one, much better now.

Thanks... that seems to have fixed it for me!

Luke.