I'm using SuSE 10.1, which comes with GNome 2.12.2. The machine is an Intel x86-64, ATI x300. I have a strange problem where application windows disappear from without a trace while the process remains running. The problem affects a wide range of applications: nautilus, terminal, firefox, java apps, eclipse, etc. The problem is very unpredictable, but it usually happens when one app shows a dialog, closes a dialog, or when a window is closed. These events suddenly kill the parent window of the same application and often kill other application windows too! Sometimes this includes the gnome-panel disappearing, and also all desktop icons. When I open the GNOME system monitor, I can see that the disappeared window processes are still running, but I can't find a way to resurrect their windows back to bring them to the front. However, if the window that disappeared is something like firefox or gedit, then these can get resurrected when I hit a link (to open a new tab in firefox) or open a new text document because as you know, these actions reuse the same running instance so it merely brings the current process window to the front; this tells me that the app process is still running fine, but it's just that its window is gone for some reason! The disappeared windows are not listed in neither window selector or window panel. When I log off, I sometimes notice the disappeared windows flashing back quickly - but I'm not sure about this. My questions is: 1) on the short term, as a workaround, is there some signal or a way to tell a process to show its window again or bring it to the front? 2) Is this a known bug? Or is it an xorg issue, not a GNome issue? I tried googling alot, but with no success finding any similar results. I have a similar system at home on an AMD 32 machine, but without such problems. Please help! this is really hurting my productivity and if it continues then I may have no choice but to switch to Windows!! It keeps killing my eclipse and other apps! Thanks, Rami _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
