RHEL is deprecating KDE

Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by AsyncAwait on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:26AM (#18369518)

I've been trying to use KDE on and off, but it just randomly freezes on me for several seconds on anything other than an Intel GPU. I was excited to try it with the new open-source AMD drivers, but it still does that.

GNOME doesn't have this problem, so for all its problems, it works for me.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by simion314 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:24AM (#18369868)

I never hear of this issue, if you want to try again open a bug or ask for help on reddit or support sites/forums. Most issues related to graphics are flickering and artifacts and KWin has many options you can try, including not using 3d effects. (Wayland is still not ready)

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by AsyncAwait on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:53PM (#18371181)

I'll definitely try to isolate this more and file a bug report, I currently only use KDE actively on my Intel GPU laptop, but I like the DE itself very much and would like to switch to it everywhere, potentially, in the future.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by simion314 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:57PM (#18371522)

I would first try to set kwin rendering backend 1to Xrender, this uses the CPU and not OpenGL/GP so you can see if the OpenGL drivers are the issue. For me on NVIDIA control panel app I have more options for OpenGl and those helped me.

This page has some variables that let's you set some things and bypass kwin autodetection https://community.kde.org/KWin/Environment_Variables

I know it sucks that it does not work out of the box, at least you don't have Nvidia.

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