{"id":27,"date":"2015-04-26T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=27"},"modified":"2016-11-27T01:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T00:08:59","slug":"back-to-kde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Back to KDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What happened?<\/h3>\n<p>Some things were just too annoying with awesome:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cvlc -f not opening full screen, just sometimes, completely at random. When \u00a0it didn&#8217;t, it froze. \u00a0When it did, it slowed down everything. First I thought that it had \u00a0something to do with VDPAU \u00a0and tried to turn it off, but I didn&#8217;t even get that far.<\/li>\n<li>Maximizing a youtube-video in Chromium seemed to freeze the screen. Eventually I figured out that awesome decided to open it in the background or something. Surprisingly, maximizing the window in that state raised it. Learned that by accident.<\/li>\n<li>ffplay and mplayer windows centered right where they shouldn&#8217;t: between both screens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, a tiling window manager is nice when \u00a0you use X just as a console multiplexer, but if you want more, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to give KDE another shot. I used it before, but eventually got annoyed by all the useless crap I don&#8217;t want nor need, like Akonadi or Nepomuk.<\/p>\n<h3>The Experience<\/h3>\n<p>So I replaced<\/p>\n<pre>exec awesome<\/pre>\n<p>with<\/p>\n<pre>exec startkde<\/pre>\n<p>in my .xinitrc. First thing I noticed was my CPU fan spinning up.\u00a0Baloo_file decided to have my 6 CPUs work overtime. I found out that it is the new file indexer of the KDE framework. Don&#8217;t want it, don&#8217;t need it, but easily fixed. Just turn \u00a0off the Desktop Search in System Settings. For good measure I also added<\/p>\n<pre>chmod -x \/usr\/bin\/baloo_file<\/pre>\n<p>Other than that I&#8217;m quite happy with it. cvlc -f \u00a0always starts full screen again, and a tabbed Konsole is so much nicer than a tiled urxvt \ud83d\ude42 Chromium and youtube also work as \u00a0expected again.<\/p>\n<h3>What I miss<\/h3>\n<p>What I really miss is separate desktops per screen, but from what I read that won&#8217;t be implemented soon, if ever. Well, you can&#8217;t have everything. Fortunately I found workarounds for most cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened? Some things were just too annoying with awesome: cvlc -f not opening full screen, just sometimes, completely at random. When \u00a0it didn&#8217;t, it froze. \u00a0When it did, it slowed down everything. First I thought that it had \u00a0something to do with VDPAU \u00a0and tried to turn it off, but I didn&#8217;t even get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to KDE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,77],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop","category-linux","tag-awesome","tag-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}