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'''Parent:''' [[Projects/KDE_on_Solaris/OpenSolaris|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.

See also the [http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=kde4 list of known bugs].

== Font anti-aliasing  ==

Is disabled in a fresh installation. Execute <code>gnome-appearance-properties</code> and select some better option in '''Fonts'''. 
Seems to be fixed in 4.3.90 and b130.

== nwam-manager is spawned multiple times ==

Was tracked as [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205529 205529]. KDE4 session is started with multiple instances of nwam-manager. As a result, systray has multiple nwam-manager icons.

There's an easy workaround, add the following to ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc to [General] section:
<code>excludeApps=nwam-manager</code>

More details in [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205529 205529].

== Akonadi seems misconfigured ==
After login an akonadi error window is shown.
You can get rid of the errors by calling
<pre>
kwriteconfig --file kres-migratorrc --group Migration --key Enabled --type bool false 
</pre>
although a patch would be better.

== Missing Reboot and Shutdown  ==

Tracked as [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186198 186198]. A simple workaround is [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186198#c3 available].
This is also tracked in OpenSolaris as [http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1166 1166]. 


== Broken screen lock ==

Tracked as [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184465 184465]. '''xlock''' can be used as a workaround. It could also be convenient to undefine the Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut and use <code>System Settings -> Input Actions</code> to redefine this shortcut to xlock.

To disable default shortcut:
<pre>
System Settings -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts -> Run Command Interface
-> "Lock Session" (remove the shortcut)
</pre>

To enable Ctrl+Alt+L as Input Action to spawn xlock:
<pre>
System Settings -> Input Actions
right-click the left pane -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command/URL
Trigger -> define shortcut
Action -> Command/URL -> xlock 
</pre>

== Colission with SUNWvboxguest ==

When built and/or executed in a [http://www.virtualbox.org/ 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:
<code>
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
</code>
When using succesfully built packages in VirtualBox the KDE session startup fails.

This needs to be resolved in the build system.
This is reported as http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6030