Posted by member 45783 on 2003-08-18 04:06:06
Last week I posted a bug report about scripting in 24.7, and this may be just a follow up.
Anyway, after the problems I had with my themes (scripting, icons not showing up in systray), I tried another theme to check if it was just me or LS in itself, and chose simplicity, because I know that it is in active development and, for my knowledge, relatively bug-free.
Imagine my surprise when the systray remained empty and a complete freeze was just a couple of clicks away with my computer. With 24.7 and simplicity, on average after executing 5-6 functions, the theme freezed over totally and one has to log off or otherwise terminate the shell to make anything work. The problem also manifested with my other computer, so it is apparently not machine-specific and not about the theme.
Falling back to indie litestep was the only sensible option, and it worked perfectly. Everything worked like a dream.
There should be absolutely nothing special about my computers, I have no suspicious programs installed nor do I overclock my machine or anything that would differentiate it from the ordinary. The only thing is that it is a finnish installation of W2K with the appropriate finnish service packs installed (SP 4 at present). This shouldn't however, have anything to do with litestep.
I can't be alone with this problem. If LS installer puts up a fresh 24.7 with the aforementioned simplicity and it crashes immediately upon use in a perfectly ordinary machine, there should be dozens, if not hundreds of posts like this.
Where are you people?
Has any of you experienced anything likewise?
What the f*ck am I doing wrong?
Anyway, after the problems I had with my themes (scripting, icons not showing up in systray), I tried another theme to check if it was just me or LS in itself, and chose simplicity, because I know that it is in active development and, for my knowledge, relatively bug-free.
Imagine my surprise when the systray remained empty and a complete freeze was just a couple of clicks away with my computer. With 24.7 and simplicity, on average after executing 5-6 functions, the theme freezed over totally and one has to log off or otherwise terminate the shell to make anything work. The problem also manifested with my other computer, so it is apparently not machine-specific and not about the theme.
Falling back to indie litestep was the only sensible option, and it worked perfectly. Everything worked like a dream.
There should be absolutely nothing special about my computers, I have no suspicious programs installed nor do I overclock my machine or anything that would differentiate it from the ordinary. The only thing is that it is a finnish installation of W2K with the appropriate finnish service packs installed (SP 4 at present). This shouldn't however, have anything to do with litestep.
I can't be alone with this problem. If LS installer puts up a fresh 24.7 with the aforementioned simplicity and it crashes immediately upon use in a perfectly ordinary machine, there should be dozens, if not hundreds of posts like this.
Where are you people?
Has any of you experienced anything likewise?
What the f*ck am I doing wrong?