Version: (using KDE 4.0.4) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux Hi, I'm using KDE 3.5 for "terminal services" for several tens of clients. I use nxserver - freenx on the server side and nxclient from 2x on the client side. Since few days I'm trying to set up KDE 4 in testing environment and to reach usability/speed the same as on 3.5. In KDE 4 I don't see any option to decrease (lock down) visual effects. When all visual effects are on, nxserver has to send enormous quantity of information so the performance suffers a lot. Server machine is loaded 3-4 times more than when using KDE 3.5 (this is all encrypting and compressing more graphics in nxserver). FOr example resizing an icon effectively hogs a 2MB/s link. I would like to have kind of lock down editor so I can trim my KDE for users so they are unable to put on every visual effects and later complain about the performance. And even more: I need a schema which is as limited as KDE 3.5 with almost every effect disabled (those ones accessible through "Desktop Settings Wizard"). I perceive this is serious issue, as using KDE 4 as terminal services in business is not an option now because of its requirements (KDE 4 through nxserver effectively kills every modern machine/link). Best regards and I'm looking for a (satisfactory!) reply! Janusz.
Sorry I reported to Konqueror; I had to choose some main package as this is true for "whole" KDE 4.
*** Bug 184028 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, This bug represents longtime and major problem for most KDE users. Terminal sessions are not alone, "none"/"weak" GPU users with MIDs/Netbooks/NetTops are in same boat... It's really a loss that KDE developers dealing with much-much-much less important things like Social blogging, multiple browsers, useless widgets and etc. How much time you spend looking on you desktop surface? A second before you really starting to use DE? Visual performance and infrastructures must be #1 priority for DE. FYI: By just replacing default(Oxygen) visual style with GTK+ style, I've gained serious improvement. P.S. Hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings, but we are desperate while looking for salvation.
Is this possibly a duplicate of Bug 163001?
Setting in my .bashrc : export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native solved this problem during several years. (Unfortunately, it no longer works with Qt5 and FreeNX is unusable with Qt5/KDE5/Plasma)
I guess it's no longer a problem then, if the affected software hasn't worked in years.