Gnome&KDE soup

[Martin Kho]

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
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>
> 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

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