7 Dec
2019
7 Dec
'19
7:29 a.m.
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.
You won't -- who wants to wait 5 min. for a desktop to start anyway :)
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.
There is two of something running that is fighting for the same screen real
estate.
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.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.