On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is > what it is named). > > I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. > > Each of the web browsers, is used for different reasons. > > None of them, appear to have provision for saving sessions. > > In accessing a particular web site, which appears to use the malware > javascript, I tried with Konqueror, as the most stable of these web > browsers, and that would not open the web site, so I opened the web > site with Rekonq. > > When the web page involved, opened, it cahnged the desktop GUI theme, > to some MS Windows like theme.
That's very peculiar. Could you let us have the URL of the page, and screenshots of you desktop before and after the event? > > If, in trying to change the theme, I choose > Menu "System" -> Preferences -> Appearance, > I get > > " > Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. > Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not > take effect. This could indicate a problem with DBus, or a non-GNOME > (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with > the GNOME settings manager. > " > > so I assume that Rekonq invoked the KDE desktop, and conflicted with > GNOME, and, prevented GNOME desktop functionality. > > I had had the three web browsers running without any problems, before > opening the particular web site with Rekonq, with the previous GUI > theme, running okay. > > As the three web browsers do not have provision for saving sessions, > if I shut them down, I lose the sessions. > > Does a way exist, to kill the KDE GUI that was inflicted, and, return > to the previous GUI, without interfering with the applications that > are open? Examine the output of the command 'ps x' before and after the event. What new processes are there? Is gnome-session still running? What happens if you try to kill the new processes, and start gnome-session if necessary? > > And, does a way exist, to prevent applications such as individual web > browsers, from sabotahing the desktop manager settings? I'm surprised that this can happen at all. > > This is a bit like an application saying ":Stuff it - I am bored with > Linux - I am switching to MS Windows". > > Thank you in anticipation. > -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmdpjcb.ucs.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
