How to start dead plasmashell on a set tty
by Robin Laing
Hello,
Fedora 33 still and have an issue.
My plasmashell crashed. It isn't running and I have my open apps and a
black background. Right click does nothing and there is no menu bar.
Is there a way to restart the plasmashell from a tty and attach it to
the running tty or is there a clean way to close off the account from a
different terminal?
I cannot just shut the computer down as there are some very long
processes running in a different account.
Just before the crash, plasmashell was running at 100% on a core.
Robin
3 years
How to change login background / login image
by sbob
Hi all;
I just installed Fedora 34, I am using the xorg option when I login to
KDE. Is there a way to replace the Fedora login image with one of my own?
Thanks in advance
3 years
Broken Plasma task bar
by Temlakos
Everyone:
Ever since the latest massive kde5 update (Saturday 8 May 2021), I have
not been able to use the task bar to switch between open windows - and
sometimes not even to start certain applications that have taskbar
icons. Anything in the System Tray is all right - like the dnfdragora
update icon, the clipboard, the new-device icon, or the volume icon. But
anything for an open window? Forget it. Every time I click on such an
object, the computer pauses for about ten or fifteen seconds, during
which it accepts no input from mouse or keyboard - and then blanks the
screen, abruptly closes all open windows, and restarts the session. Most
of the time the session is all right, but not always - in which case I
restart the machine.
It's not the kernel. I've tried this with all three versions of the
kernel I now have on board. (They're all three F34 builds by now.)
It's one or more of the applications that are part of KDE Plasma. But I
despair of telling which one. That update had 185 programs in it, and
only four of them are referable to the kernel.
I can always use the Alt-Tab trick to browse open windows to get to any
open window I want. I can always start most programs through the
Applications Menu; that icon works. I /think/ I can start one instance
of Dolphin - but starting a new instance requires the task bar, so
that's out. The only way to open two instances of Dolphin is to connect
an external device, thus giving me an excuse to open that device in
Dolphin and then switch views. (And another thing: movement and copying
from one Dolphin instance to another is also broken. I have to use the
clipboard as an intermediate step. Otherwise Dolphin complains that it
/can't read/ what I'm trying to move or copy.)
In other news, my bug reporting system is broken and won't report
anything, and the KDE Daemon keeps crashing at the beginning of every
session - though I can't tell whether I'm losing anything by that.
Has anyone else noticed this issue?
Can someone having an intact reporting system, or an upstream channel,
try to report this?
Thanks in advance.
Temlakos
3 years
F34 Live KDE Hangs on Boot
by Christopher Ross
As F32 is going end-of-life, and having skipped F33 because of apparent
compatibility issues with the Fedora KDE Spin, I tried a clean install
of Fedora 34.
Booting from a USB of /Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso/ my computer
just hangs at the point it tries to start the desktop. I get a black
screen with a mouse cursor. Moving the mouse does not move the cursor,
the keyboard is unresponsive, the only way out I have found is to power
cycle the machine. I tried several times before giving up, settling for
upgrading my existing F32 installation with DNF
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=34 --allowerasing
dnf system-upgrade reboot
That has worked as expected, although the filesystem is still ext4 of
course, not the new BTRFS.
Regards,
Chris R.
3 years
F34 KDE startup login task does not run
by Barry Scott
I have been using a login task for a number of years with KDE.
After the upgrade to F34 KDE is no longer running my login script.
I added some logging to the script to leave evidence that it has run
and no logs are recorded.
I tried deleting the existing entry in
System Settings/Startup and Shutdown/autostart
then I added the script back in.
But that did not work.
Is there something special I need to do to make this work?
Is there a log somewhere that I can check for errors?
Barry
3 years
F34 Dolphin Downloads folder
by Christopher Ross
In F34 Dolphin has changed so that the "Downloads" folder is divided
into sections by horizontal lines. How can I turn this feature off and
have it displayed like any other folder? I can't find that in settings.
Many thanks,
Chris R.
3 years
Shade not working on F34
by Christopher Ross
Today I updated F32->F34
I have KDE configured so double clicking on a window title bar shades
the window instead of maximising it. This used to be the KDE default,
years ago, until it was changed to follow MS's changes to Windows.
Anyway, I now find that this works for some windows (e.g. thunderbird)
but not others (e.g. dolphin). Right clicking on the title bar of KDE
apps such as Dolphin I find that "More actions => shade" is greyed out.
I've checked the settings, rebooted and all that good stuff. How do I
get back this feature which has been a staple of the KDE desktop for
probably 20 years?
Many thanks,
Chris R.
3 years
