Re: Plasma won't run on recently upgraded F8 to F9

On Friday June 27 2008 12:22:57 pm Claude Jones wrote:
> If I try to start plasma from a command line,  I get this:
>
> <unknown program name>(4531)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an
> argb visual 0x9d39570 62914561
> <unknown program name>(4531)/ checkComposite: Plasma is
> COMPOSITE-less on 0x9d32b10
>
> This machine had the early beta of KDE4 applied to it while
> still on F8, which I subsequently removed FWIW. It was
> upgraded via yum upgrade to F9 recently. I did this
> successfully on my home machine, which had gone through
> similar experimentation with KDE4 on F8 - my home machine is
> running current kde-redhat-unstable quite nicely.

Just to add some info: I don't really actually know whether 
plasma is running or not. I became a bit less certain after 
reading a page that Rex had linked to in some previous post, 
which discusses the idea behind plasma;

What I don't have is a taskbar/panel. I can right click and add a 
panel, which always goes to the top of the screen - the 
repositioning handle doesn't seem to work so there it stays; I 
can add widgets to it, including a task launcher, BUT, running 
programs don't create buttons on this panel, which means I have 
to use 'Alt-tab' a lot to navigate between my running programs 
right now. So, is this plasma on crutches, thin blood...?

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

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