Jaunty kdm not handling Xorg crashing during logout well

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 17:53 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> > Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> >> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >>   
> >>> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> >>>     
> >>>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>       
> >>>>> Continuation of the openchrome driver crashing Xorg saga
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/446316
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Looks like I will have to switch over to gdm and GNOME, since it is more 
> >>>>> responsive (zero desktop effects/no compiz enabled in KDE) than KDE, 
> >>>>> while I am at it so that I do not have an embarrassing Linux desktop for 
> >>>>> show.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>         
> >>>> this is the beauty of Linux,
> >>>> if gdm/gnome suits you better, there is no one stopping you 
> >>>> from using it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Btw. on a multiuser desktop machine (you wrote this in the 
> >>>> bugreport), do you really need to work with an 
> >>>> via/openchrome chipset/motherboard?
> >>>>   
> >>>>       
> >>> Yes. Donated hardware. Athlon XP too.
> >>>
> >>>     
> >> ok, then I understand. When the hardware has been donated,
> >> you are lucky. If it is not mini/micro/whatever small via 
> >> hardware, maybe you can buy an elcheapo nvidia card, also 
> >> buying secondhand will do greatly.
> >>   
> > :-D. In Hong Kong, where we THROW good working stuff away and replace 
> > with new fancy stuff (oh, and we never use the fancy stuff too) as a 
> > matter of course?
> 
> ;-))
> > 
> > Maybe people here have stopped that with the financial crises of late 
> > but I'd have to be very lucky to find an AGP board.
> >> Relating to your other mail, I guess your kde feeling will 
> >> improve massively from another graphics board, as well.
> Well, there must be ways to obtain one, maybe via ebay?
> 
> >>
> >>   
> > Man, I was hearing all these stories about how KDE4 had a smaller 
> > footprint than GNOME and KDE3 and also how good qt4 was and BANG! KDE4 
> > is slow and kiosktool, the only group based desktop management tool 
> > there is on Linux, had not been ported.
> > 
> > 
> > Please forgive me if I feel kind of cheated.
> > 
> No need for excuses. While starting KDE4 development has 
> been the right thing to do, the way it was introduced has 
> been the failure of the century, at least up to now, imho.;-(

I raised ten kinds of Hell over KDE4, but now I can configure it to act
like KDE3, so I'm happy! :) Ric