[om-qa] Question about OM Lx 3 Beta1 desktops?

Colin Close itchka at compuserve.com
Tue Apr 26 14:07:53 EDT 2016


Ben,
I had plasma running under x-wayland ok on a Radeon R600 equipped box and it worked ok.
I have to confess though that I set the whole thing up by hand from the command line but potentially it works.
Best,
Colin

On Tuesday 26 Apr 2016 11:13:45 Ben Bullard wrote:
> 1. Something in our Beta1 Bog post has me confused.
> 
> "KDE Plasma 5 now runs under the Wayland graphical server which offers 
> smooth and fast graphical rendering. This configuration is 
> experimental." On my computers Plasma/Wayland doesn't work at all. I get 
> black screen with mouse cursor. Does Plasma/Wayland work for other 
> users? Is this something we should be filing bugs about? I will grant 
> that it is "smooth and fast graphical rendering" at getting to black 
> screen...
> 
> 2. Openbox desktop works the same, ie. black screen with mouse cursor.
> 
> 3. Plasma Media Center. What is it? How is it different from Plasma? 
> Here they seem identical.
> 
> 4. Failsafe X seems only to open at top left of sddm login screen a 
> miniature terminal which is no more useful than a virtual terminal or 
> recovery mode.
> 
> 
> If I had a vote I'd get rid of all 4 of the above and include IceWM. 
> This would also help get us to a GA release faster. I would also not 
> include LXQt and Plasma together. I'd have 2 separate .iso's one with 
> Plasma5 and IceWM and the other with LXQt and IceWM. *Yep, that's it, 
> that's the ticket, that's what I'd do!:-D*
> 
> 




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