Superkaramba = Superunstable ?!?

antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Hello!

This post is perhaps more a general question, but does somebody have running Superkaramba on KDE 3.5.x without any problems?

On my system (32 bit, KDE 3.5.2) I have it running with two themes (Aero and Liquid Weather) and also with only those two it misbehaves. It suddenly freezes and never comes back, and if I install a new theme from kde-look.org's website (.theme files) it simply crashes.

I cannot say that Superkaramba is very stable yet. It even does not behave I used to have beta software on Linux behave (pretty stable ;-)

but it behaves like a pre-pre-alpha on my two systems.

Am I doing something wrong perhaps? Is there some hint how to make it more stable?

Thanks and regards!
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infjms00 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:

Same problem here with superkaramba 0.39 (installed via kdeutils) and both aero aio and liquidweather themes, but only on x86, o ppc works great.

The Rancid · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 15

Really unstable on my box, too!
I can successfully load just a couple of monitors, but when I try to load a specific theme (don't remember which, at the moment) it inevitably crashes...
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Twain · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

It works great for me on KDE 3.5.2 and Superkaramba Version 0.39. I am using Liquid Weather and thao_sys_meter2. At the beginning when I was testing several themes it often crashed, but now it is working rock solid.

infjms00 · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

Well, then it may be an AERO AIO issue, ill try to use superkaramba without loading it, and lets see qhat happens.

Twain · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

Try thao_sys_meter instead.
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=36994

antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Also without Aero that strange behaviour.
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KD-120RD · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

I used to use superkaramba, but it crashed so many times that I got annoyed and uninstalled it again.
I'll wait untill KDE 4 before I will try it again.
I also wonder why such an unstable application got officially inclued in KDE.

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antares2001 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

Any idea when we will be able to see and try a first alpha version of KDE? Or is it supposed not to be official until some beta or release candidate?

I would not like to install an early version, but some live cd with it to test it would be great. Just to shorten the time till the final coming out :-)

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infjms00 · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

Kde 4 it's not even alpha, so I guess we will have to wait till november/december at least.

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mackerel · Apprentice Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 167 Location: SC

superkaramba works fine here. I had an issue with the latest liquid weather++, then I went back to older version.
I am running kde 3.5.2, Aero AIO .7, and liquid weather 9.3

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alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

I somehow removed superkaramba from my x86 machine and when I went to re-emerge things started to go wonky. I had migrated from the x11-themes/superkaramba to kde-base/superkaramba a while ago and things worked without any problems (so, for me at least, I haven't seen any problems before this recent emerge) but after re-installing I can't seem to get aero ai to run correctly. Liquid Weather ++ runs just fine (better, actually, since this re-install forced me to upgrade to the newest version (12, I think)

Aero is currently giving me problems reminiscent of when I hadn't installed pyqt the first time (primarily, the theme configuration isn't showing up) But I have that installed now. The only other thing that I can think of is that the most recent version of kde-base/superkaramba (which for me is 3.5.3) is pre superkaramba .37, but that doesn't make sense to me. Is there something I'm missing?

Kovid · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:

Run SK in a terminal and post the topmost error when you try to open the config menu

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

Ok. I ran the program from the terminal and found some interesting things. Firstly, here is the info displayed once I start the theme (there isn't any output before that):

Kovid · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject:

You have a problem with the amarok plugin being in the autoswitch list but no longer loadable. I would recommend
rm -rf ~/.aero_aio ~/.superkaramba/aero*. Download and re-install the latest aero aio

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

that got it. Thanks

VinzC · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:33 am Post subject:

I too have lots of problems with KDE's SuperKaramba 0.39. The only one theme that runs perfectly is LiquidWeather 12.3. As for the other ones, foto, for instance, cannot be displayed more than once on the desktop. If I add foto multiple times nothing happens. Instead it creates a resource file 32185-afoto-1.5b-3-x.rc each time I try to add afoto.

The other applets I tried are Aero AIO, Tube clock, many sensors and other applets. Either they don't run when I try to add them to the desktop or they run but stop immediately. None of the AIO applets I tried ran. For others the "Configure theme" menu is grayed. The only one applets which "Configure theme" is not grayed are Afoto and Liquid Weather.

It's a real mess, frankly.

Things were much better with Superkaramba 0.37/KDE 3.4.3. I've just upgraded KDE to version 3.5 and won't turn back to 3.4.3 since there are a couple of enhancements I like quite much (e.g. bottom panel full transparency, enhanced tooltips for buttons, better HTML rendering in Konqueror...).

Is there something else than SuperKaramba which:
- would allow me to put pictures on the desktop
- has sensors (disks, networks, RAM, CPU)
- has weather and forecast like LW+
- can control my favorite audio player?
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alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

Ya, use the kicker. Just put in another panel and put in the system monitor, a music controller (I'm not sure about the picture thing, but there is probably something out there)

VinzC · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: