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 DF647138825 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB176E087E; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0E9E0856 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm1bA-0007sE-B4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:30:12 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:30:06 +0000 Message-ID: <3066554.nJqgzQYkOp@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: <1633638.om6nZRUvqr@wstn> References: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> <5709062.NdMDt2VCEI@andromeda> <1633638.om6nZRUvqr@wstn> 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-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 2810f13f-e8d6-4b10-ad95-720a13122b19 X-Archives-Hash: 179b7e4c275e10a3d408e96f808010e6 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