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 3B817138825 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40AA5E093B; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AD7E0917 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.137] (helo=smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlyph-0000k5-8k for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:33:01 +0100 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlypg-0000eq-VR for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:33:01 +0100 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8DB64B for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:32:09 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:32:53 +0100 Message-ID: <5709062.NdMDt2VCEI@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@wstn> References: <2131981.Y3XVfdmX0g@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-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 8365900f-24e5-49e8-94c2-2c68824c90fe X-Archives-Hash: b3ad3af0a874b32db1894bf475532870 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? -- Joost