From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5832138825 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 13:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2772E0896; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 13:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C016E0884 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 13:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm0bI-0001Wb-PQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:26:16 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:26:11 +0000 Message-ID: <1633638.om6nZRUvqr@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5709062.NdMDt2VCEI@andromeda> References: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> <5709062.NdMDt2VCEI@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 183754be-98a9-4ed8-9ff9-03c495732a88 X-Archives-Hash: bd9ccf0c8ae44e6292ca4e51b0e56eaa On Wednesday 05 November 2014 12:32:53 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, November 05, 2014 10:31:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Does anyone know why, sometimes, when I log in to KDE via KDM, all my > > applications have disappeared? Sometimes they're visible in the task bar > > but clicking on one doesn't bring it up, and sometimes the task bar is > > blank. Sometimes logging out and in again used to fix it, nowadays mostly > > not. > > > > The only thing that's unaffected by all this is gkrellm, which is set to > > behave as a dock or panel. > > > > It's as though a new Activity had been created without action by me, but > > no > > amount of fiddling with the New Activity button gets me any closer to an > > understanding. Personally, I'd be happy to have the whole concept of > > activities stripped out. I don't suppose there's any way for me to do > > anything like that as a user or sysadmin? > > > > This happened to me again yesterday, and I ended up creating a new user > > from scratch and importing e-mails, copying the .mozilla and .opera > > directories and so on - only to find that that's been hidden today as > > well. > > I haven't seen this behaviour myself. > > Do you also copy the ".kde" folder back? If you mean .kde4, no I don't copy that, on the assumption that it would include whatever quirk had caused my vanishing-desktop problem. -- Rgds Peter