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On Wednesday 05 November 2014 13:26:11 I wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 05 November 2014 12:32:53 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday, November 05, 2014 10:31:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > Hello list, |
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> > > Does anyone know why, sometimes, when I log in to KDE via KDM, all my |
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> > > applications have disappeared? Sometimes they're visible in the task bar |
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> > > but clicking on one doesn't bring it up, and sometimes the task bar is |
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> > > blank. Sometimes logging out and in again used to fix it, nowadays |
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> > > mostly not. |
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> > > |
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> > > The only thing that's unaffected by all this is gkrellm, which is set to |
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> > > behave as a dock or panel. |
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> > > |
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> > > It's as though a new Activity had been created without action by me, but |
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> > > no |
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> > > amount of fiddling with the New Activity button gets me any closer to an |
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> > > understanding. Personally, I'd be happy to have the whole concept of |
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> > > activities stripped out. I don't suppose there's any way for me to do |
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> > > anything like that as a user or sysadmin? |
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> > > |
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> > > This happened to me again yesterday, and I ended up creating a new user |
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> > > from scratch and importing e-mails, copying the .mozilla and .opera |
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> > > directories and so on - only to find that that's been hidden today as |
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> > > well. |
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> > I haven't seen this behaviour myself. |
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> > Do you also copy the ".kde" folder back? |
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> If you mean .kde4, no I don't copy that, on the assumption that it would |
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> include whatever quirk had caused my vanishing-desktop problem. |
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Now this is getting weirder. Just now I followed the clicks to create a new |
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activity, then chose "Clone current activity" and lo! and behold! my desktop |
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sprang into view. |
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What the devil is going on? How many "activities" do I now have? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |