On Wednesday 05 November 2014 12:32:53 J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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?
If you mean .kde4, no I don't copy that, on the assumption that it would include whatever quirk had caused my vanishing-desktop problem. -- Rgds Peter
