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

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

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?

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Joost