KDE Plasma 5 Hits Testing!

LuckyCyborg · 11-04-2020, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

Now it works. The "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.plasma" was missing. What destroyed it in the upgrade from ktown to vtown ?

Looks that our BDFL chosen another name for it: xinitrc.kde

RadicalDreamer · 11-04-2020, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

Now it works. The "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.plasma" was missing. What destroyed it in the upgrade from ktown to vtown ?

It is now called xinitrc.kde

Edit: LuckyCyborg beat me to it

Toutatis · 11-04-2020, 02:58 AM

@LuckyCyborg @RadicalDreamer Yes, this seems natural, since this new kde replaces the old one

rkelsen · 11-04-2020, 03:05 AM

Collective sigh of relief?

gdiazlo · 11-04-2020, 05:02 AM

I hope digikam remains as part of the distribution. It is the best program of photo management in any desktop...

rkelsen · 11-04-2020, 05:25 AM

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Originally Posted by gdiazlo

I hope digikam remains as part of the distribution. It is the best program of photo management in any desktop...

Yeah... but the source is 580 megs! I can certainly see why a packager would think twice about it.

LuckyCyborg · 11-04-2020, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by rkelsen

Yeah... but the source is 580 megs! I can certainly see why a packager would think twice about it.

So what?

Does it really matter when Slackware is already since years the biggest monolithic Linux installation from entire History of Linux distributions?

Let's do not be shy, we are The Fatzilla since long time already, thanks to your Recommended Full Install and non splitting the packages.

BTW, I tried hard a month ago to find an USB stick of 8GB or lower (needed for updating the BIOS in an old box) and they sell only of 16GB or greater - this happening in a remote part of Russia: Karelia.

So I bought of 32GB in an end, considering updating that BIOS from a SDCARD USB adapter...

Now the complete tree of slackware-current has still only 12GB, with KDE4 and VTown included on /testing - we still have way more space up to 32GB.

If it goes meantime upper 32GB as installation kit size, I will just buy an 64GB stick - they are already quite cheap.

Alien Bob · 11-04-2020, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

So what?

Does it really matter when Slackware is already since years the biggest monolithic Linux installation from entire History of Linux distributions?

Let's do not be shy, we are The Fatzilla since long time already, thanks to your Recommended Full Install and non splitting the packages.

Our staging servers are low on space, and these 580 MB is serious bloat (previous releases were a lot smaller) thanks to a new pre-trained neural network that was added to improve facial recognition. I wish they had made that an optional download.

gmgf · 11-04-2020, 06:50 AM

oops sorry bad place

Chuck56 · 11-04-2020, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

...The fix is rather simple: to grab the files /etc/pam.d/sddm* from KTown's SDDM and to put them in the right place, then just reboot.

As others have pointed out, this fixes the Plasma freeze on runlevel 4 for my desktop too. I had a recent desktop backup of ktown and copied the following ktown files into vtown:

Code:

/etc/pam.d/sddm
/etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter

Thanks to AlienBob for his tireless efforts to help PV migrate KDE5 to Slackware!

slalik · 11-04-2020, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

BTW, I tried hard a month ago to find an USB stick of 8GB or lower (needed for updating the BIOS in an old box) and they sell only of 16GB or greater - this happening in a remote part of Russia: Karelia.

In Newegg there are almost 3000 USB sticks up to 8GB in stock:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100008...31&PageSize=96

nobodino · 11-04-2020, 06:56 AM

ktorrent doesn't work as the last package from ktown-5.2.0.
The latest working is the ktorrent-5.1.2-x86_64-1alien.txz package, which is the one I use.

montagdude · 11-04-2020, 07:11 AM

I too like digikam. Hopefully it will find its way to SBo.

gmgf · 11-04-2020, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by montagdude

I too like digikam. Hopefully it will find its way to SBo.

Eric, will maintain it, he always said it

BroX · 11-04-2020, 07:43 AM

[EDIT]
Nevermind... my bad.