[arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0

[Ronald van Haren]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:29 +0200, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote:
>>> so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be
>>> affected, but there may be others
>>> intel 910
>>> intel 945
>>> intel 965
>>> ati 3450
>>
>> Given the fact that AMD and Intel rule the IGP market, I would say yes.
>
> We would still need an announcement as for those who upgrade from
> previous versions this global configuration wont be effective. We should
> add to the announcement that people could disable composite by editing
> ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc (if they are no longer able to login)
>
> --
> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
>

you will be able to login, afaik this bug only shows up when changing
stuff in system settings. disabling and enabling compositing with the
global shortcut should be enough to get it working again.

Ronald