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    You cannot keep typing indefinitely in a session that is not reading output; it seems like eventually the output from the shell hangs as well. Also, you can hang konsole completely by doing this.
    You cannot keep typing indefinitely in a session that is not reading output; it seems like eventually the output from the shell hangs as well. Also, you can hang konsole completely by doing this.
    == Annoying mouse bug ==
    Korona 4.3.1 is built on top of OpenSolaris build 122, which suffers from http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9862. There's a patch in the bug comments.

    Revision as of 20:50, 15 September 2009

    Parent: KDE on OpenSolaris

    When installing one of the latest development builds of KDE4 on OpenSolaris (2009.06), there's a number of changes to do to make the use of the desktop more convenient. Some of the suggested changes are below.

    This page also lists some yet unresolved and highly visible problems with no workaround.


    Font anti-aliasing

    Is disabled in a fresh installation. Execute gnome-appearance-properties and select some better option in Fonts.

    Akonadi seems misconfigured

    After login an akonadi error window is shown. You can get rid of the errors by calling

    kwriteconfig --file kres-migratorrc --group Migration --key Enabled --type bool false 
    

    although a patch would be better.

    Missing Reboot and Shutdown

    Tracked as 186198. A simple workaround is available. This is also tracked in OpenSolaris as 1166.


    Broken screen lock

    Tracked as 184465. xlock can be used as a workaround. It could also be convenient to undefine the Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut and use System Settings -> Input Actions to redefine this shortcut to xlock.


    Colission with SUNWvboxguest

    When built and/or executed in a VirtualBox instance, there's a collision with the SUNWvboxguest package (VirtualBox guest additions). While building, this results in following sort of build error in FOSSqt: Undefined first referenced symbol in file XDamageDestroy /usr/lib/libGL.so XDamageCreate /usr/lib/libGL.so XDamageQueryExtension /usr/lib/libGL.so XDamageQueryVersion /usr/lib/libGL.so When using succesfully built packages in VirtualBox the KDE session startup fails.

    This needs to be resolved in the build system.


    System Activity dialog is empty

    Tracked as 200646. Pressing the default shortcut Ctrl-Esc or running ksysguard should display a list of running processes. This dialog is empty.

    Dolphin crashes

    Dolphin crashes when run both from command line and menu

    Several games crash

    /opt/kde4/bin/bomber /opt/kde4/bin/bovo /opt/kde4/bin/kblocks /opt/kde4/bin/kbreakout

    Some edu apps crash

    /opt/kde4/bin/geodatatest /opt/kde4/bin/marble

    krunner crashes

    /opt/kde4/bin/krunner

    akonadi_nepomuk_email_feeder crashes

    /opt/kde4/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_email_feeder

    Konsole gets disconnected from shell

    no bugs.kde.org entry yet

    In a konsole tab, you can break the link between the shell / session / tab output and konsole itself, so that nothing gets printed anymore. To reproduce this problem, you need to either hit ^C at an inopportune time (there's plenty of that) or produce an unusual output pattern. Here's a long-winded way of looking at the ^C issue:

    • start konsole
    • start a new tab for convenience
    • check that the shell is working, for instance by running ls
    • tail -f /var/log/messages
    • hit ^C; notice that tail is interrupted and the shell returns
    • ls again, to see the shell still works
    • at the shell prompt itself, hit ^C; you would expect a new shell prompt to be printed, but it is not
    • type "date > /tmp/foo ; exit" and it enter (without the quotes)
    • notice that /tmp/foo now exists with the right time and that the shell / session / tab closes

    Here is a way of breaking the link without ^C but by producing a not-very-special output pattern. You need to have the C compiler installed:

    • start konsole
    • start a new tab for convenience
    • cd /tmp/usr/ucb/echo -n "#include <math.h>" > t.ccc t.c
    • notice how the shell prompt does not come back after the warnings printed by the C compiler
    • type exit to close the shell / session / tab

    You cannot keep typing indefinitely in a session that is not reading output; it seems like eventually the output from the shell hangs as well. Also, you can hang konsole completely by doing this.

    Annoying mouse bug

    Korona 4.3.1 is built on top of OpenSolaris build 122, which suffers from http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9862. There's a patch in the bug comments.