7 Dec
2019
7 Dec
'19
3:20 p.m.
David C. Rankin wrote on 12/7/19 12:29 AM:
On 12/06/2019 03:30 PM, D. R. Evans wrote:
Really hoping for some helpful suggestions. I
really, really, really, don't
want to give up and use KDE5.
There are several things to check. The first, and I
apologize I can't give you
a chapter and verse here, but I do recall an issue with 2-panels being
triggered plasma/TDE, and if I recall it had to do with the /etc/xdg/autostart
stuff plasma adds to the box. Check the autostart folder for anything suspicious.
I don't know what would be suspicious, but here are the contents of that
directory:
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[ZB:autostart] ls -al
total 172
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20 Nov 11 14:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 192 Dec 6 10:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202 Feb 9 2019 at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1844 Jan 6 2019 baloo_file.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 223 Jan 12 2019 geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 937 Jan 8 2019 gmenudbusmenuproxy.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474 Dec 30 2018 kdeconnectd.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11708 Jan 8 2019 klipper.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3041 Nov 20 2018 konqy_preload.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1036 Jan 8 2019 krunner.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272 Oct 20 2018 orca-autostart.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7112 Oct 30 2018 org.kde.korgac.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2374 Jan 8 2019 org.kde.plasmashell.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3908 Jan 24 2019 pam_kwallet_init.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3917 Jan 24 2019
polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5495 Jan 24 2019 powerdevil.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7969 Dec 27 2018 print-applet.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4973 Aug 15 09:21 pulseaudio.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212 Dec 27 2018 xdg-user-dirs.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1163 Jan 8 2019 xembedsniproxy.desktop
[ZB:autostart]
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There is two of something running that is fighting for
the same screen real
estate.
That is an excellent thought. That's exactly what it looks like.
Second, the underlying graphics system (driver, etc..)
should be the same no
matter what desktop you are running. How xrandr is used or what plasma does on
its own can effect DPMS, etc.., but what pumps pixels to the screen from your
GPU should be desktop agnostic.
Right. And I don't see how it is likely to be the driver anyway, since the
background wallpaper doesn't flicker, just the stuff that's layered on top of
it. That fact is probably telling us something important, but I don't know
what :-)
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