Am 2017-11-07 20:08, schrieb Martin Koller:
Are you aware that KWin uses QtQuick for all its UI elements, such as
Alt+TAB?
I have deactivated the compositor since sadly it simply does not work
on my laptop (the intel graphics driver just freezes the whole
machine).
I did not talk about compositor, I talked about QtQuick! Yes, KWin uses
QtQuick for rendering it's UI, that is unrelated to compositing.
Now you mention that your intel graphics driver freezes the whole
system. I'm using Intel on all my systems and it's the most used driver
out there. We get many, many, many bug reports in KWin about issues.
Freezing systems has not been in the list for now something like two
years.
Given that I am very certain that you have a hardware issue where people
can help you with. Intel GPUs are good enough to run the Plasma session
without any negative impact.
So let us help you fix your issues that you can enjoy our work without
having to spend time on writing your own shell.
First thing: are you using the xorg-modesettings driver? If not: install
it, problems solved. Do not (I repeat) do not use the xorg-intel driver.
For kernel I recommend at least version 4.13 as this comes with the
atomic modesettings driver stack enabled by default. If you do not have
such a kernel version yet I highly recommend to give it a try.
As another possible solution I provide something very radical: use
Wayland. My experience is that the system works way more reliable and
nicer on Intel. I had several issues with Xorg and Intel, I have none on
Wayland.
Cheers
Martin
