Re: F22: KDE to Gnome?

[Rich Emberson]

Well, after decades of KDE my solution was:

dnf groupinstall Xfce

Xfce works

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Rich Emberson 
wrote:
> Upgraded from F20 KDE environment using
>   fedup --network 22 --product=nonproduct
>
> and X/KDE has rendering/refresh/redraw issues.
> Application widgets and KDE pop menus are not draw, or,
> at best some edge or corner is drawn. In an xterm,
> the line being entered is drawn, but nothing else -
> move the window and the content disappears.
>
> System description at bottom.
>
> Information points:
> With F20, KDE worked fine on this machine.
> Upgraded KDE system has above rendering issues
> Remotely logging into broken system and launching X application
>  which displays on remote machine works just fine.
> Booting from a F22 KDE Live dvd has *SAME* rendering issue.
> Booting from a F22 Gnome Workstation Live dvd has *NO* rendering
>
> issues.
>
> Information point 2: Seems to imply that the X.org SW is working fine; the
>   X protocol (X <-> app) is good.
> Information point 4: Yea, the F22 Workstation dvd seems to work.
>
> Question: Do the two Live dvds (KDE and Gnome) use the same nouveau driver?
>
> If the two dvds use the same nouveau driver, then
>   it might be argued that its a KDE issue.
>
> The machine has a Nvidia graphics board, but it is not being used;
>   was not used with F20 KDE and not being used for broken F22 KDE.
>
> So, if it is a KDE issue (on this particular machine) then what to do?
>   In particular, it looks like on this machine I will be using Gnome
>   or some other window manager but not KDE for F22.
>
> Options:
>
> Attempt to use Nvidia graphics on broken F22 KDE machine.
>  There are many sites that describe how to disable nouveau
>  and enable Nvidia.  But, 1) there does not seem to be a site
>  specifically addressing what to do when using F22 and 2) the sites
>  are not consistent (use rpmfusion vs Nvidia site for driver,
>  what needs to be done to disable nouveau (grub/blacklist,...), etc.).
>  Also, there is no guarantee that a KDE rendering issue will be
>  fixed by switching to Nvidia card.
>
> Attempt to install F22 Workstation on existing broken F22 KDE machine.
>  If one uses the F22 Gnome Workstation dvd to "install to harddrive"
>    will it allow you to select which disk to install on
>    (my /home has already been backed up)?
>    I assume this will set Gnome as the desktop into which the system
>
> boots.
>       Or, is there some dnf command which will install the Workstation
>         so that the system boots into Gnome.
>
> Re-install F20 (KDE) and then upgrade to F22 Workstation.
>  This is the most time consuming, but it appears to be rather
>    straight forward.
>
> install F20 from dvd
>    fedup --network 22 --product=workstation
>
> Question: Which option above is the most likely to succeed?
>
> Question: Once the system is working as F22 Gnome Workstation, can I then
>   install and try out other window managers (e.g., xfce)?
>
> Advice sought.
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
> System:
> > uname -a
> Linux olympia 4.1.3-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29 19:50:22 UTC
>
> 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> hardware (board, cpu, Nvidia graphics board (not used), etc.)
>     # /sbin/lshw -c display
>      *-display
>           description: VGA compatible controller
>           product: G73 [GeForce 7300 GT]
>           vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
>           physical id: 0
>           bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>           version: a1
>           width: 64 bits
>           clock: 33MHz
>           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
> cap_listrom
>           configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
>           resources: irq:29 memory:fd000000-fdffffff
> memory:d0000000-dfffffff
>           memory:fc000000-fcffffff ioport:bc00(size=128)
> memory:fe8e0000-fe8fffff
>   Display driver
>     >  rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n' | grep nouv
>         xorg-x11-drv-nouveau 1.0.11-2.fc22 x86_64
>   X.org software
>     libX11 1.6.3-1.fc22 x86_64
>     xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.17.2-2.fc22 x86_64
>     etc.
>   Desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc.)
>     kde-runtime-libs 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
>     kde-runtime 15.04.2-1.fc22 x86_64
>     etc.
>   Monitor
>     Early on, I swapped out the monitor to a different one and still
>     got the same problem