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I like this dark setup as it goes really well with my black Samsung 22" widescreen monitor.
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Well I was wrong! So switching to the gtk-window-decorator seems to be the answer. It crashed once the day after I switched but since then it has been rock solid. When I was using the KDE-window-decorator it crashed nine out of ten sessions.
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I have succumbed to temptation and installed KDE4 to have a play with it. When I ran Kmail it did its 'first run wizard' thing. I was expecting it to use my existing settings as I have logged in under the same user name as with old KDE? Can I transfer the settings across? I don't want to set up my email accounts and message rules again. Will the settings 'sync', I don't want to have two different versions of Kmail running.
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Well that lasted about eighteen hours! So looks like I am just going to have to accept it or switch to Metisse or Gnome?
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I am currently using a GeForce 7300 GT graphics card but i have had the same problem with a 6600GT and a Radeon Mobility card whose name eludes me. The bug is that the wondows decoration (the coloured title bar) dissapears. This means you cannot move or minimise or maximise a window. It is VERY irritating!
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Thanks for this! I have done as suggested and will let you know how things go.
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I agree! When I had the problem (on an HP Pavilion) it simply would not switch on. I had about five days left on my warranty so I phoned HP customer support. When I gave them the model number the immediately told me to "reseat the memory". No 'check the fuses, plugs' etc so it was obviously a known issue.
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I have had a similar problem in the past and it was due to the memory. Try 'reseating' the memory as AussieJohn suggested. I doubt it is your hard drive as from what you say it is not even trying to boot up, but you could check this by trying to boot from a live CD.
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There must be someone out there who read that post when it first appeared? Maybe they are all on the Slackware forum?
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in relative terms, to me this is like "do you remember where you were when man landed on the moon?" http://groups.google.it/group/comp.os.mini...536d1fb451ac60/ I have to say it was before my (Linux) time.
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I am using 'la ora'. I don't know if that is an old one or not? I think that some distros seem more 'natural' in certain desktops. When I was an Ubuntu user I was happy using Gnome, I tried using it with KDE but it didn't feel 'right' for some reason. Mandriva and SUSE just seem right when using KDE.
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Well that is bad news! I really like compiz, well at least some aspects of it. I was using Mandriva on old Celeron 667mHz based PC for a while and I really missed Ctrl+Alt+left/righ tarrow to switch desktops. I have started using SMplayer more recently and so far (touch wood) that has not caused the crash. Though it still happens at random sometimes.
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No it is not just associated with Kaffeine, sometimes it happens when you first boot up, sometimes when you load amaroK and sometimes it just happens.
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:lol2: Me too! I didn't realise there was a more complicated way of doing it! :D
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I was hoping that this might be fixed in KDE4 but I get the impression that the KDE developers have washed their hands of it (the bug that is). It seems to be officially classed as a Compiz bug now? I am finding it is happening more and more now, it happens 50% of the time I open Kaffeine, and it is getting increasingly irritating! Am I correct in thinking it doesn't happen in Gnome? If so I may have to switch, much as I prefer KDE.