Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: > >> What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called >> kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that >> krunner that has it now? > Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real > names of things a little more :-) > > What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom > and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2? > > The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from kde-base/plasma-workspace > The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner > > I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although > the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect > of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and > unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the > doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun, > video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal > with mouse pointer repaints... > > Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun) > >
The thingy is the thing at the bottom where I can switch desktops, click the K menu and where my clock is. I think it was called Kicker in KDE3. KDE4 seems to have changed it but not sure what the new name is. I hope they fix this thing soon. If they remove the driver from the tree, I'm in a bit of a pickle. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
