Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 04/14/2016 09:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:14:05 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
>> I didn't have any problems with sddm, but that slow interface drove me
>> nuts. I was using nouveau, and I read against running that with nvidia
>> cards, so I installed the binary driver and I went from a very slow
>> interface (i.e. 5-10 seconds to respond to alt-tab, and on resume from
>> standby plasma would hang for 1-2 minutes) to crashing plasma every 3
>> minutes with the binary nvidia driver.
> 
> I'm using nouveau and it takes a good second for the window list to
> appear when pressing Alt-Tab for the first time in a session, but it's
> pretty quick, but not instant, after that. It may depend on the type of
> switcher you are using. I use Breeze, but some of the others are faster.
> 
> 

Hmm. On mine it wouldn't work, I had to keep holding alt for it to
register, eventually it would switch. Simply pressing alt+tab didn't do
anything on my desktop. This happened every time I wanted to switch to a
different window, and it got annoying very quickly.

I did try using different themes, it made no difference, plasma was
hanging (and crashing hard when I switched to the nvidia drivers.)

Dan