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 72590138825 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C562E093B; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:31:47 +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 D9B54E092F for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:31:45 +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 1XlxsP-000FuT-10 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:31:45 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:31:39 +0000 Message-ID: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) 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: fc2e2d1e-d18a-4399-b557-255beae122c2 X-Archives-Hash: f769f45a95c89e10fab8b3b5b1e31093 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