Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing

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

On Wednesday 05 November 2014 13:26:11 I wrote:
> 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.

Now this is getting weirder. Just now I followed the clicks to create a new 
activity, then chose "Clone current activity" and lo! and behold! my desktop 
sprang into view.

What the devil is going on? How many "activities" do I now have?

-- 
Rgds
Peter