KDEneon upgrade available

[claydoh]

Well, reinstalling can be quicker, if one has data backups etc.

fwiw, N eon never used 17.10 repos, so my guess is the usual copy-pasta-from-random-web-pages. Seems to me many seem to just do this randomly. It is a good thing it is harder to get a Linux system compromised but that tiny bit of me that is an Evil Genius wants to set up one of those 'linux hints' page and give people randomly wrong info, or even semi-nefarious stuff. Force their Plasma theme to be Fluffy Bunny or something.


I am a complete idiot most times, and I somehow made it these past 20 years without some of the things I have been seeing lately. I mean, I sure have effed up, and often, but purely through something I did, and knew what it was that I did.

Another person was wondering why Neon didn't set up a Root account during the install, and they could not install anything with Discover?

[exploder]

Had to install pulse audio volume control and use sudo apt purge timidity-daemon to get sound working.

Edit: Spoke too soon, loosing sound still every few boots. Firefox is also freezing and crashing now and then too...

[mbohets]

Here is my upgrade experience:

Upgrade went smoothly, no hickups.
After reboot, I needed to re-install Digikam and my Brother printer drivers.

Something rather annoying with the touchpad edge scroll function happened.
Instead of having only the right edge of the touchpad for scrolling, now the entire right half of my touchpad is a scroll area.
Any ideas on how to fix this ?
As a workaround I disabled edge scrolling, but I would like to have it back to normal.

The package 'software-properties-kde' is no longer in the repositories, so it is no longer possible to control the software sources from Muon.

When I try to install it using apt install, it says the package is replaced by software-properties-qt muon
but after installing this replacement, muon still wants the original package.

[oshunluvr]

I don't think Muon is being maintained, or at least not well. Use apt or pkcon from the command line is my recommendation.

[claydoh]

The package 'software-properties-kde' is no longer in the repositories, so it is no longer possible to control the software sources from Muon.

It is now called software-properties-qt as it is shared with Lubuntu . Neon doesn't normally include either Muon or the Software Sources tool. Installing software-properties-qt will also add a button to Discover, works from Synaptic, and can be run standalone, you can search for 'Software Sources' in the menu.

[benny_fletch]

I did the upgrade earlier this evening and the process ran without issue. The upgrade stated it would remove libreoffice (I assume because I had installed it via a PPA), but it did not (according to muon). Funny thing is it did remove a couple of packages for libreoffice in the upgrade (since I was watching the terminal output), but I did not check if it caused libreoffice not to run (since I already added the 7.0 PPA and set it to install when Muon informed me it was going to upgrade it vs. install). Like mbohets, I too had to re-install digikam after the install.

The biggest issue I am seeing (since I run global menu in a panel to mirror macOS), is certain apps (gimp, firefox, libreoffice, and bluefish) no longer have a menu bar in the app or in global menu. When running 18.04 based neon I found if global menu could not/would not display the apps menu bar it would leave it active in the application. With 20.04 global menu apparently steals the menu bar, but does not know how to display it or is unwilling to do so. This is frustrating since some of those apps are now mostly unusable in their current state. I will do some research to see if there is a fix. It is not a gtk vs. qt issue, since gscan2pdf and asunder display in global menu just fine.

Sad to hear about muon, I have come to love that software. Although, I had the same feelings for synapitc a decade and a half ago. So, I will adapt.

Other than that, the upgrade process was uneventful and quite effective. A great job by the KDE neon team!!!

--- EDIT ---

Did some little web searching and enabled the application menu titlebar button in my window decorations as a fail safe (per this post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1110...us-are-enabled ). The weird thing is, once I open a file, the menu bar will show in global menu for all the above mentioned apps. All I can say is interesting...

[mbohets]

Any ideas on how to solve the touchpad issue ?
after the upgrade, it seems that my touchpad is divided in 2.
The right half is now for edge scrolling while previously only a small part on the right was for edge scrolling,
and I can only use the left half of the touchpad for normal mouse pointer movements.

As a workaround I switched off edge scrolling, but I would like to have it back.
In the touchpad settings I don't find a setting to control the width of the scroll edge part.

[dequire]

Finally broke down and did the upgrade today. Everything appears to be fine. Only issue - had to purge and re-install pulseaudio, as my PC had no sound hardware detected. Odd, but apparently does happen with these upgrades sometimes. i.e. https://askubuntu.com/questions/9763...tings-no-sound

Everything else seems pretty good atm.

EDIT: Spoke to soon. No audio and no devices listed in the system besides dummy audio out. My research continues.

[claydoh]

Finally broke down and did the upgrade today. Everything appears to be fine. Only issue - had to purge and re-install pulseaudio, as my PC had no sound hardware detected. Odd, but apparently does happen with these upgrades sometimes. i.e. https://askubuntu.com/questions/9763...tings-no-sound

Everything else seems pretty good atm.

EDIT: Spoke to soon. No audio and no devices listed in the system besides dummy audio out. My research continues.

Try deleting your pulse cookie, or maybe the whole ~/.config/pulse dir?
Then restart pulse via pulseaudio -k
I think. I had to to do something, but cannot recall exactly.

[dequire]

Thanks claydoh! In the end, the first paragraph of this did the trick
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...otingProcedure

...Still annoying though.

[mr_raider]

Finally broke down and did the upgrade today. Everything appears to be fine. Only issue - had to purge and re-install pulseaudio, as my PC had no sound hardware detected. Odd, but apparently does happen with these upgrades sometimes. i.e. https://askubuntu.com/questions/9763...tings-no-sound

Everything else seems pretty good atm.

EDIT: Spoke to soon. No audio and no devices listed in the system besides dummy audio out. My research continues.

I've had that issue intermittently. Usually a reboot solves the issue.