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    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.

    See also the list of known bugs.

    Font anti-aliasing

    Is disabled in a fresh installation. Execute gnome-appearance-properties 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 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: excludeApps=nwam-manager

    More details in 205529.

    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.

    To disable default shortcut:

    System Settings -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts -> Run Command Interface
    -> "Lock Session" (remove the shortcut)
    

    To enable Ctrl+Alt+L as Input Action to spawn xlock:

    System Settings -> Input Actions
    right-click the left pane -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command/URL
    Trigger -> define shortcut
    Action -> Command/URL -> 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.

    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.