160921 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 21 September 2016 at 06:46, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> I've been a happy user of Fluxbox for many years, >> but am willing to see how well KDE 5 works in 2016 . > You should install plasma-desktop and use startkde in your ~/.xinitrc .
Thanks. I've been trying out KDE 5 for the past week & generally it's usable : it's about as quick to start as Fluxbox, given that it starts apps automatically, cursor movements seem smoother & some window expansions are a bit cleaner. However, I've discovered that it's not recognising the numeric pad keys : they simply have no effect, even as surplus cursor keys. There was a discussion in a forum in 2015 about this problem & it was traced back to a bug in Qt 5.5 , supposedly fixed in 5.6 . I'm using 5.6 , but the problem is still there. Has anyone else encountered this ? Are there any suggestions ? Yes, I use Numlockx & have tried all options in SystemSettings. The numeric pad works without difficulty in Fluxbox. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
