Gnome&KDE soup

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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.

R. 
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