Gnome&KDE soup

[Orcan Ogetbil]

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