arjay wrote:Is it just me or is kde 4.6.0 + some drivers, at least as offered with Mint10, rather flaky? So far|:
1. Changing mouse double-click to single click doesn't survive a reboot - quite irritating
2. Setting the system up to auto login doesn't survive a reboot - even more irritating especially as the WAF went down like a stone (she can never remember the PW).
I get both of those so I understand how annoying it is. I noticed the same in the early days of Mint 9 KDE, but after a few weeks or so it stopped happening. Which got me thinking. In the early days of any new release, the developers are still tinkering with improvements. Sometimes their new modifications are to settings files stored at various locations within the filesystem. I noticed one of today's updates (or yesterday's - I don't update every day) was to 'mint-configuration-kde'. If my theory was correct, then I expected some change to my settings. Sure enough, on the next login I had to type my password to log in. The double/single click behaviour had not changed this time though.
So I guess that's it. It would be just too much trouble to merge the changes with those the user has made, I guess. Perhaps it's not the only cause, but certainly one of them.
3. Very poor display with the default drivers - some text unreadable, smudged lines, icons a mere squiggle . Solved by installing Nvidia drivers for my bog-standard 8500 card
Yes. I didn't have it as bad as you with the Nouveau driver and I admire the efforts of the developers, but I always install a proprietary driver ASAP.
4. Now, after logging out and back in, my login screen has switched to German - insert here the German for
Blimey Mate - wots all this
That's a new one on me. Hopefully dante19992's suggestion has fixed that one.
5. A few more things like intermittent sound (as in messages saying "can't find the device so switching back to one that never works") - but that I'm used to with several distros since early days of kde 4. Also lost webcam, problems with Skype sound etc etc. Mostly solved by buying an old Soundblaster sound card for 5 Euros, installing it and disabling on-board sound on my not all-singing or dancing 200 Euro Motherboard
Any help (in English) for how to get rid of the German login would be appreciated

One used to have to be pretty careful when buying hardware on which to run a Linux distro. These days it usually works pretty well on anything, which is truly amazing when you realise that the devs get little or no help from hardware manufacturers. What's more; it's all in the kernel (modules)! Which means you can plug your HDD in to any similar PC and it will work. Which is how the LiveCDs work of course...