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 7AFF3138825 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A25EE09EE; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com (mail-wg0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C959FE09E2 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id k14so2051988wgh.0 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:21:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VOV5X/uHWY7dSUBB3pdkXjkpbWbaD9TieQxcI46CKn8=; b=PR+VO94SUK39q9GkwaHid3lXHD1TSx2YlkQgzijFguCScq+bgczkmU6XWYOpF/VmAm qaGqyo/vRU85USSePit27yk6kGx7siEQA/lT1JIrgdO1xvbx/jEGpS0mMngu7LIdUwDQ 5Z+T7C6R87O4opSwwWCvjAwdVdCpRULmnJZLSuhOuRwSkxv8yakTJ+bU5UpI7qq7RiyT CeEyj5416iamVaZS2RRM48BCGGIUg5DgQRJOt27tNvKLrgUgsZxEuw5xLNYAbqCvcOdK mlUFXr+XCVTVCVI+HPW3rgZnHZoX+MsgIhKxOufqwWqQktSo5kURi18YN3Izwtk2ZV/y IJXw== X-Received: by 10.194.63.79 with SMTP id e15mr117336wjs.79.1415226107517; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p5B0C5AEC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.12.90.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id lm9sm5540697wjc.45.2014.11.05.14.21.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:21:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <545AA2FA.4040103@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:21:46 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing References: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> In-Reply-To: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2fed3156-39a8-455a-b815-c77dfe581026 X-Archives-Hash: 0c8c2974fb20be47d5fbd4061b748e23 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.