On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:01:12 Martin Kho wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 10:53:54 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 of January 2009 19:31:33 Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > > > This had happened to me once in the past, with two different versions > > > > of KDE (3.4.x) and Gnome (?). But I could never reproduce it. > > > > It just started happening again (3 times in the past week). > > > > > > > > There is no obvious action to trigger this event. It can happen while > > > > I am browsing the web or while my computer is idle for a couple > > > > hours. > > > > > > > > The KDE desktop just vanishes. The panel stays, but the desktop turns > > > > to Gnome. Today something of the strangest happened. Half of the > > > > screen turned to Gnome, the other half remained KDE. > > > > My panels are (and hence the plasma is) still active. The panel on > > > > the left is auto-hiding so it is not visible in the pictures below, > > > > but that one works too when I bring the mouse pointer to the left > > > > side of the screen. > > > > Here are two screenshots: > > > > > > > > On this one I took the screenshot while I right-clicked on the Gnome > > > > part of my desktop: > > > > http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mixture1jc6.jpg > > > > > > > > whereas on this one I right-click on the KDE part of the desktop: > > > > http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mixture2eq0.jpg > > > > > > > > I am mainly using KDE and switch to Gnome once every couple months > > > > (just for the fun of it). Currently I have > > > > kdebase-4.1.96-1.fc10.x86_64 > > > > kdebase-workspace-4.1.96-4.fc10.x86_64 > > > > kdelibs-4.1.96-9.fc10.x86_64 > > > > qt-4.4.3-10.fc10.x86_64 > > > > gdm-2.24.0-12.fc10.x86_64 > > > > gtk2-2.14.5-3.fc10.x86_64 > > > > gnome-desktop-2.24.2-1.fc10.x86_64 > > > > etc installed. > > > > > > > > I am not sure where to report this bug. Is this a Gnome bug or a KDE > > > > bug or is it something else? > > > > > > > > This will probably be my candidate for the weirdest Linux bug ever. > > > > > > > > -Orcan > > > > > > Am I diagnosed with a one-in-a-million disease that no doctor knows > > > about? > > > > > > -Orcan > > > _______________________________________________ > > > fedora-kde mailing list > > > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > > > > Hmm, something similar happened to me too - when Plasma crashed - I had > > Nautilus running under it. It was OK for new virgin accounts - something > > bad in my (and I think your too) profile. > > > > Any idea from someone? I can't reproduce it anymore after profile > > cleanup. > > Are you using nvidia propriety drivers? There were some posts on the nvidia > mailing list discussing these sort of issues. So I'm not sure if it has to > do with KDE or the 'crappy closed source' nvidia drivers :-) > > I, too, use nvidia drivers. The 'split-screen' problem that Orcan shows in > his pics, seems to be reproduceable by resizing the panel. When I increase > the panels height, say two or three times, the desktop will be split in a > black part and a 2.5 cm. part of my original desktop at the top of the > screen. > > Pic of the 'split' desktop: > > http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot1tj4.png > > Martin Kho Update: I have tried it with the 'nv' driver (had try it before), with the same result. What was in the previous post black is now white. Looks like a problem with KDE 4.2? Does anyone else have seen this? Martin > > > R. > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde
