[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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.

-- 
Rgds
Peter