system-settings and logout

[Robert Szalai]

Hi All,

I was trying to use 4.5 betas and now RC3 from kde-unstable and have a  
two annoying problems.

a) When I change something in system-setting and press the Apply  
button the whole desktop hangs. I need to restart X and log in again.  
The changes I made seem to be there after restarting X, though.

b) On logout/restart/shutdown the desktop freezes again, there is no  
indication what is going on. The timer that supposed to show how much  
time is left stays at 24 seconds. Also pressing the logout/restart/ 
shutdown button in the middle of the screen give no reaction. However,  
after waiting about 20 seconds the logout/restart/shutdown will occur.  
It is just annoying that there is feedback and why do I need to wait  
for the timeout and why can't I just press the button?

Problem a) occurs regardless if desktop effects are on/off. Problem b)  
only occurs with desktop effects on. Out of curiosity I've tested it  
with Kubuntu with their 4.5rc2 packages and to my surprise neither of  
these problems were present with desktop effects on.

Does anybody have similar experience, is there a bug report and why  
does Kubuntu work and Fedora doesn't?

Thanks,
Robert

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Robert Szalai wrote:
> Hi All,

thank you.

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Robert Szalai wrote:
> a) When I change something in system-setting and press the Apply
> button the whole desktop hangs. I need to restart X and log in again.
> The changes I made seem to be there after restarting X, though.

I had this when I changed application appearance/colours. It was just after upgrading to 4.4.95. It only occurred once, but I have not made any changes since, as no previous settings had been lost due to the upgrade (I just wanted to have a different colour scheme for a change). I had to go to a different virtual terminal and kill X, I think it was, or did I just hit ctrl-alt-backspace? Yes, I think it was the latter. In any case, I logged back in and my settings had been applied and I have had no problems since (albeit, I have not made other colour or other changes).