I've searched pretty extensively and I really don't understand what is up with this: the first time the mouse cursor touches the "Leave" icon in the K menu, everything plasma freezes for about a minute. I can still type in an xterm, browse with firefox, or drag windows around; only the stupid panel is frozen. If I touch Leave again with the mouse, nothing unusual happens.
Aside from this irritating stumble, KDE5 actually feels more responsive than KDE4.
I am not using a display manager, but starting with .xinitrc:
Tried it without the --with-ck-launch and it didn't make any difference. I just installed KDE 5.12.5.18.04.2 from ports (
dbus is enabled.
I disabled baloo crap in the Settings GUI, but I found the baloo file indexing processes eating up cpu anyway so I killed baloo_file and baloo_file_extractor the old fashioned way: renamed them and replaced them with a link to
I'm not running hald; not sure if it is needed. I guess it is for automounting USB drives? I have autofs set up because I want to be able to easily mount removable without having to rely on unreliable DE stuff.
If I run top in an xterm while the KDE panel is frozen, there is no indication any process is going nuts and hogging cpu.
Aside from this irritating stumble, KDE5 actually feels more responsive than KDE4.
I am not using a display manager, but starting with .xinitrc:
Code:
startkde --with-ck-launchTried it without the --with-ck-launch and it didn't make any difference. I just installed KDE 5.12.5.18.04.2 from ports (
portmaster kde5) and it is possible I missed some pieces here and there.dbus is enabled.
I disabled baloo crap in the Settings GUI, but I found the baloo file indexing processes eating up cpu anyway so I killed baloo_file and baloo_file_extractor the old fashioned way: renamed them and replaced them with a link to
/usr/bin/true. locate(1) is good enough for me.I'm not running hald; not sure if it is needed. I guess it is for automounting USB drives? I have autofs set up because I want to be able to easily mount removable without having to rely on unreliable DE stuff.
If I run top in an xterm while the KDE panel is frozen, there is no indication any process is going nuts and hogging cpu.