Chris H

And no, I haven't filed a bug because KDE4 is a bug. Enough said.

Don't hold back now!

The red highlighted line is exactly the same error message I get when I try to launch Krusader root mode.

Can you try from a console after "su -" and see if that works?

More qt4 than you can shale a stick at in the repos. :unsure:

urpmi --auto-select did the trick!

Amarok now working.

I liked it.

Less flashy than compiz, but with some amazing effects and functionality.

Unfortunately it's as cpu hungry if not more than compiz and my laptop just overheated after 10 mins of metisse magic :sad:

Shame as this is the first kernel that I could get it working properly on.

Just found this on a mailing list regarding the exact same error. Will give it a go tonight when I get in.

You need the latest qt-4.4.1 from updates-testing

Use the old Amarok. The new one packaged with 2009 was unusable for me.

I could but the mp3tunes plugin makes it too useful!

It worked before I loaded Gnome and it works on my other installation which was upgraded from 2008. So dunno what's happened here.

2009/KDE4.

Just installed Gnome and now Amarok refuses to start. :huh:

Terminal gives this:

amarok: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libamaroklib.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN6Plasma11Containment15hoverLeaveEventEP24QGraphicsSceneHoverEvent

Any ideas? Have removed and reinstalled but same issue.

Ta

Panic over!

Just installed Gnome and Metisse works fine.

Thanks Yves.

Next step is to get Metisse functioning properly!

I decided to move away from my mandriva installation on one partition as I know have a livecd courtesy of lxf mag here in the uk.

So the brown linux on my other partition has been replaced with a shiny new 2009/KDE4 installation.

I have not enabled compiz as it's always been cpu intensive on my setup. However, as an alternative is Metisse any good? I've tried it before but never got past the learning curve. There must be some benefit to having it running.

On a similar note enabling metisse from this install leads to a wildly flashing screen on login followed by a blue background with the 9 pane switcher and nowt else. Using drak3d to go back to a normal desktop is the only option (don't want to enable compiz).

Any solution to the problem and has anyone got a good experience or review of metisse?

Ta.

Compulsory, yet free.

I like it :P

OK, well, this is a command I tend to use. First, I do:

 

rpm -qa | grep -i kde

 

to filter all packages installed with kde in the name. Check the list and make sure they are all the packages you want to remove and then:

 

rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep -i kde`

 

will do that same filter within them single slanted quotes, and the rpm -e will remove them. Just be very careful if you do that, so you don't remove something you don't want to remove.

Removes nothing because of failed dependencies.

Could force it I suppose?

One reason for wanting to do this is that ever since loading xfce my pc no longer detects cameras, digikam now crashes and picasa takes yonks to pull the pictures over. Was working fine beforehand.

May be something to do with this daemon being removed, notification-daemon-0.3.90-0.r3017.1mdv2009.0.i586 to make way for an xfce one? And I can't reinstall it as urpmi threatens to remove most of my gnome packages at the same time for some reason.

If you use Mandriva 2009, you can do this:

urpmi task-gnome
urpme task-kde3 task-kde3-devel task-kde4 task-kde4-devel task-kde4-minimal task-xfce task-xfce-devel task-xfce-minimal task-xfce-plugins
urpme --auto-orphans

Take care: the first line is very important! Without task-gnome installed, you'll have your Gnome desktop removed as well.

 

Yves.

Same as above, it's just removed the metapackage, not all the packages called by it.

Tried it and it's just uninstalled the metapackage, all the other packages called are still there!

Maybe I'll wait until lxf or someone releases mandriva on one of their coverdisks! :P

In my usual haste I've installed everything I could lay my hands on and would like to know if there's an easy way of pruning things.

For a start I installed a KDE version, then installed the Gnome and XFCE desktops. What's the possibility of just returning to a virgin Gnome install?

Reason why is that there are one or two niggly things that I'm convinced are down to installing too much!

Ta.

Good to know that, ta.

Mandriva 2009, KDE4, Gnome, XFCE

Not sure if this is a bug or an effect of having everything including the kitchen sink loaded!

Anyways, select 'quit' from the menu.

Gives me a panel with 6 options.

Select 'Shut down'

Instead of shutting down it kicks me to the GDM login screen (which is what I have set to use instead of KDM/XDM) then I have to shut down from there.

Worth posting at bugzilla?

Ta.

Chris,

 

I hope you manage to install it and let us know how it goes. Post a screenshot even, I'm dying to know what it would look like and how it runs. Thanks.

Here we go!

It's a bit more flash than previous installations of xfce, panels placed much like Gnome as opposed to traditional xfce.. Nice job to whoever put it together for Mandriva.

Mind you I have got kde and gnome installed as well with all the libraries available.

Performance wise it's chuffin' brilliant. My laptop fan has just cracked open an ice cold beer. KDE and to some extent Gnome had run him ragged recently. :D

Ta for the info Stef.

I've always flitted between kde, gnome, xfce and flux but xfce is looking more tempting as the distros become more bulked out with components and the desktop managers become less manageable on my hardware.

Lovely!

I shall give it a go then.

I want to try the xfce to see how it runs memory-wise. If I do replace the notification-daemon will it cause issues when I boot into gnome again?

Ta.

OK, think I've got the first one sorted. Chose the Mandriva-one option and first removal message has gone.

Still unsure about the notification-daemon though. Is it important?

Nope.

But I now use Gnome and the pdf document viewer ( evince ) works fine. Perhaps install that and use it rather than okular.

But which is the one that matches my system? And what do the packages do?

I've done it twice and chosen different ones but it still asks to remove the above.

Bit mystified here.

Trying to install task-xfce but the software manager is giving me this message.

The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
mandriva-release-One-2009.0-0.10mdv2009.0.i586
(due to conflicts with mandriva-release-Flash)
notification-daemon-0.3.90-0.r3017.1mdv2009.0.i586
(due to conflicts with notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.7-8mdv2009.0.i586)

Call me old fashioned but it seems a bit drastic!

Any other suggestions on how to install xfce?

Ta