Renaud (Ron) Olgiati writes: > I have noticed that after playing some games (Pinball and Xlogical) in > fullscreen, my desktop is all messed up with all the icons scrunched > together on the LH side of the screen, as if I had done an Icon => Sort > and this in spite of having the icons locked. > > Is there a way to avoid this ? > > KDE 4.6.5 I don't have icons on my desktop (only in folder views), so this never happened to me. But sometimes when I start applications that change the resolution (from 1920x1080 to something less wide), some windows have moved to the left when I am back to KDE. I also had a similar problem with plasma stuff, but that was long ago, maybe when I also was running KDE 4.6. And before that. I'm using 4.8.1 now BTW. My sister does not have these problems on her PC, but she experiences some weird flickering effects sometimes which seem to be KDE related, but I only know about that from her descriptions, I did not actually see this yet. Anyway, my workaround since I started using KDE4 is to just not start any of such applications while in KDE4. Instead, I have a 2nd session running a simple window manager (IceWM, OpenBox, FVWM2, XFCE4 or whatever you like) where I start this stuff from an xterm. Duncan's idea about using an activity is an interesting approach, although I think I keep using my method, as switching via Ctrl-Alt-Fn is probably faster. Wonko ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.