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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 05.11.2014 um 11:31 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> 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.
>

have you tried restarting plasma? Or switched screens?

i have occasionally lost programms from the task bar, switching desktops
brought them back.