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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Some problems with beta 3
From:       Mario Fabiano <mario.fabiano () iol ! it>
Date:       1998-02-28 16:48:13
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I have installed KDE beta 3 on a RedHat 5.0 box (Intel MMX 200) starting
from RPM sources, that I have compiled without suppling specific
parameters. I do not use shadow passwords.
The stuff is very nice and very confortable to work with; my best
compliments to KDE developers.

Unfortunately there are also some problems.

1.    Sometimes the system hangs
I work as a normal user; in some circustamces that seem to be related to
the interaction between mouse, windows and pop-up menus, the X Windows
hangs. It is no longer possible even to kill the X server
(alt-ctl-backspace), nor switch between consoles, soft reboot the
system, or to do anything else. The only way to restart seems to do a
hard reboot.
BTW in some cases I get to access the system with telnet; then I login,
kill the X server, and resume normal operations.
Do anybody have similar problems?

2.    Screen savers get almost 100% of user CPU
I work as root on a KDE session and evething seems to work well. Then I
disconnect and reconnect as another user; the process kbanner.kss (or
something like that) belonging to root is still active and gets almost
100% of user CPU.
I have to kill it opening a kvt root session, then things seem to go
fine again.

3.    Incorrect KDE help manual menu
On the manual page index from KDE help, there is an empty section 9, but
no way to get the "l" (Local) section that comes when you tell RedHat to
install PostgreSQL.
I tried to edit the ~/.kde/kdehelprc file to change the manual page
sections, but did not get any result.
Any suggestions?

4.    Kcalc does not work
Kcalc seems completly crazy. I select a digit, say 6, and get something
like -2, I press 5, and get -1.49166814624004e-154, and so on.
A random number generator has a much more easy to foresee behaviour.
Did anybody else get the same inconvenient?


Thanks in advance to everybody who will help.


Ciao

--
                                                Mario

Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly,
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.

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