6 Dec
2019
6 Dec
'19
10:15 p.m.
On Friday 06 December 2019 03:37:59 pm William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Friday 06 December 2019 13:30:17 D. R. Evans
wrote:
I've found that not installing any desktop during initial installation is my
preferred choice.
I generally make several bash scripts to do the TDE installation and other
initial housekeeping and stick those on a USB stick and use those after first
boot. Attaching them for convenience, modify as you desire.
Best,
Michael
PS: aud?, aup?, yes I'm that lazy... (actually I can't type...)
D. R. Evans wrote on 12/6/19 10:54 AM:
I found that I had problems upgrading to Buster / Ascii. However, my
recommendation is maybe not a "fix", but a better workaround. I would
suggest using a different desktop (such as MATE) for you other desktop
choice.
When I install Devuan, I use the netinstall CD, and MATE is one of the
choices. I find that it works better than KDE5 when running beside TDE. It
took me months and months of tweaking to get KDE5 to behave itself enough
to make my system work.
After I install the base system, I reboot into MATE, then add Open Office
(instead of LibreOffice), and usually reboot again, then install TDE, and
everything has been working almost with few problems for nearly a year;
especially the past 6 months have seen only a few minor bugs. No such luck
with KDE5. I just installed TDE on a new-to-me system
running debian stable
(buster).
All the initial system installation was done from a live CD, and it
installed KDE. That installed version of KDE works as well as KDE ever
works these days. In particular, though, the screen looks fine
(1920x1200) and everything works as expected.
In the newly-installed TDE, though, the desktop flickers wildly and the
desktop is simply unusable: input is lost during the flickers, so most
keyboard/mouse input is not even seen by the desktop.
Where should I look to try to eliminate all the flickering so that I
can get a usable TDE?
More info:
The background doesn't flicker at all. What is flickering are the panel
and the default icons on the desktop, many times a second.
If I succeed in bringing up the TDE menu (which, if I click enough times,
eventually does appear when I succeed in timing a click at a moment when
the desktop is accepting input), then the flickering stops for as long as
the menu is visible.
Really hoping for some helpful suggestions. I really, really, really,
don't want to give up and use KDE5.
Doc