Re: KDE Konqueror woes
On (15/03/05 21:50), Rob wrote:
> Just curious if anyone else has Konqueror/famd issues. With famd, my
> Konqueror file browsing will work fine until x hours later. At this
> point, Konqueror freezes on the first directory it shows. Then on a 'ps
> aux', I notice the famd process in a "D Uninterruptible sleep
> (usually IO)" or Z Defunct" state--today was "D". I have seen threads
> on the net about people giving up on fam and disabling it. As a result,
> you have to pause when entering directories occasionally, but its
> usually better than Konqueror freezing. I've been running without famd
> for a few weeks, but experienced Konqueror locking up again. So I
> enabled, famd. As usual, it worked for a while then the famd process
> went bad. '/etc/init.d/famd stop' nor 'kill -9' can stop the process
> and restore order.
>
> Anyone else see this issue? Not sure if it might relate to our x86
> platform, just a KDE issue, or just my crazy issue. It is getting quite
> annoying having no file browser. Granted I'm more of a commandline
> person myself, but the file browser is of use occasionally. Overall, my
> experience with KDE was better than that of gnome. More things just
> worked out of the install. So I'd prefer to stick with KDE if only I
> can resolve this fam issue.
Hi Rob
I confess I've rather fallen out with KDE - it currently seems to launch
multiple windows for no reason that I've been able to fathom. It also
crashes occasionally and kwrite has sometimes screwed up files
when saving to a samba share. I too, couldn't get on with Gnome - I
tried to like it but KDE seemed more intutitive.
I've just done a fresh install on another partition to experiment with
'light' wm's. I've not approached this in a particularly scientific
manner and tried FVWM, which I'd seen mentioned on the list but I found
it too light; maybe it's configurable to do what I want but I haven't
got eons of time to experiment. Next up, after a bit of googling I
tried xfce ..... and so far, I'm very impressed. It has multiple
desktops and is quite intuitive but most of all it is lightning quick
compared to the KDE environment.
I'm sure it's not for everyone but if you've got to the point where you
want to move beyond KDE, I'd give it a try.
I'm writing this on the KDE system in mutt but impatient to get all my
apps and configuration sorted on the new system ...... maybe tonight ;)
Regards
Clive
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