6 Dec
2019
6 Dec
'19
11:40 p.m.
On Friday 06 December 2019 14:15:34 Michael wrote:
We'll be testing these scripts of yours whenever next I reinstall my system.
If it eliminates the need to install the MATE desktop, then you definitely
will be owed props from everybody.
Bill
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