8th October 2016, 8:19
I'm unsure how much more "Maui Excitement" my nerves can take. Only a few minutes after sending my previous post, i was changing from my browser on one VD to another pgm on a different VD, by clicking its Task Bar icon. As i did this, Maui "exploded". There was a flash [which i think in retrospect was the compositor deactivating & all my windows from all my VDs being abruptly shunted onto a single VD], & i was faced with parts of various running pgm windows, a mouse which would still move but couldn't click anything, a keyboard that wouldn't respond, but [as i also originally posted] the bloody internet music still happily streaming away. Given nothing important now worked, i had to REISUB again [so at least that did work]. The drama was not yet over; once the reboot was finished & i'd logged in again, there was still no compositing, & Maui was clearly still unhappy. I rebooted, but still no compositing, so i went into System Settings & found a nasty error message therein about compositing having been disabled due to previous crashes, & would i like it to attempt OpenGL detection again? of course i said yes, & that brings me to here now. It seems to be behaving normally again, but i'm sorry to say i have a pretty low level of confidence with Maui now. Some work i was doing when Maui exploded has been lost, & i need to calm myself enough to try to recall what i'd written, & what i was going to do after that, then redo it all.
There's an irony here, & an example of karma biting me. On the same night that my Maui updated to Plasma 5.8.0 [but before all the problems began] i made a teasing post on the Mint KDE forum [where i'm active] boasting that Maui has now gone to 5.8.0 even though Mint's still stuck on 5.6.5. Since then, of course, karma has been constantly wreaking revenge on me. Don't i feel the silly goose.
I have to hope [desperately] that Plasma 5.8.1 is going to be a much happier experience for me, otherwise i fear i might have to reconsider my options.
There's an irony here, & an example of karma biting me. On the same night that my Maui updated to Plasma 5.8.0 [but before all the problems began] i made a teasing post on the Mint KDE forum [where i'm active] boasting that Maui has now gone to 5.8.0 even though Mint's still stuck on 5.6.5. Since then, of course, karma has been constantly wreaking revenge on me. Don't i feel the silly goose.
I have to hope [desperately] that Plasma 5.8.1 is going to be a much happier experience for me, otherwise i fear i might have to reconsider my options.