On Wednesday 05 November 2014 13:26:11 I wrote: > 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.
Now this is getting weirder. Just now I followed the clicks to create a new activity, then chose "Clone current activity" and lo! and behold! my desktop sprang into view. What the devil is going on? How many "activities" do I now have? -- Rgds Peter
