On Friday 06 December 2019 03:37:59 pm William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
> On Friday 06 December 2019 13:30:17 D. R. Evans wrote:
> > D. R. Evans wrote on 12/6/19 10:54 AM:
> > > I just installed TDE on a new-to-me system running debian stable
> > > (buster).
> > >
> > > All the initial system installation was done from a live CD, and it
> > > installed KDE. That installed version of KDE works as well as KDE ever
> > > works these days. In particular, though, the screen looks fine
> > > (1920x1200) and everything works as expected.
> > >
> > > In the newly-installed TDE, though, the desktop flickers wildly and the
> > > desktop is simply unusable: input is lost during the flickers, so most
> > > keyboard/mouse input is not even seen by the desktop.
> > >
> > > Where should I look to try to eliminate all the flickering so that I
> > > can get a usable TDE?
> >
> > More info:
> >
> > The background doesn't flicker at all. What is flickering are the panel
> > and the default icons on the desktop, many times a second.
> >
> > If I succeed in bringing up the TDE menu (which, if I click enough times,
> > eventually does appear when I succeed in timing a click at a moment when
> > the desktop is accepting input), then the flickering stops for as long as
> > the menu is visible.
> >
> > Really hoping for some helpful suggestions. I really, really, really,
> > don't want to give up and use KDE5.
> >
> >   Doc
>
> I found that I had problems upgrading to Buster / Ascii. However, my
> recommendation is maybe not a "fix", but a better workaround. I would
> suggest using a different desktop (such as MATE) for you other desktop
> choice.
>
> When I install Devuan, I use the netinstall CD, and MATE is one of the
> choices. I find that it works better than KDE5 when running beside TDE. It
> took me months and months of tweaking to get KDE5 to behave itself enough
> to make my system work.
>
> After I install the base system, I reboot into MATE, then add Open Office
> (instead of LibreOffice), and usually reboot again, then install TDE, and
> everything has been working almost with few problems for nearly a year;
> especially the past 6 months have seen only a few minor bugs. No such luck
> with KDE5.

I've found that not installing any desktop during initial installation is my 
preferred choice.

I generally make several bash scripts to do the TDE installation and other 
initial housekeeping and stick those on a USB stick and use those after first 
boot.  Attaching them for convenience, modify as you desire.

Best,
Michael
PS: aud?, aup?, yes I'm that lazy... (actually I can't type...)

## Trinity - TDE R14.0.5
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian stretch main
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian stretch main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian stretch main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian stretch main

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