Jun 17, 2008

Fedora 9 & kde 4


Just a bunch of bugs.

Not, really, it looks very nice. Black screen,many widgets, transparency working by default, default mouse control support... but... too slow on ICH5 with 2 GB of RAM machine, where FC3 worked like a charm.
First of all (proud smile), I made Fedora installer came to the endless loop while checking installation media. :)

Second, had to disable RAID to make the system bootable after installation, cause while enabled RAID (but not used at all! the system is on non-raid disk, attached even to a different controller!) init failed somewhere in libdevmapper. Disabling RAID device helped. Will try to enable RAID volumes a bit later.

Setting left handed mouse was a real challenge - first tried to find KDE control center (Yes! sometimes I use standard GUI utilities ;) ) - no luck, KDE control center does not exist anymore! Moreover, there no standard KDE menu, for me it reminds MAC interface with it's finder, which is very-very inconvenient for a KDE user. So, I had to come to usual xmodmap - no wonder, it works, made sh script with setting xmodmap and added it to kde autostart, and what do you think? Now KDE crashes at startup with signal 15 :) Removed the script - all is working again :)
Finally found analogue of ControlCenter, now it's called SystemSettings and reminds GNOME, finally was able to make my mouse left handed :)

Anyway... It's nice ... O-)