Gnome&KDE soup

[Martin Kho]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:01:12 Martin Kho wrote:
> 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

Update: I have tried it with the 'nv' driver (had try it before), with the 
same result. What was in the previous post black is now white. Looks like a 
problem with KDE 4.2? Does anyone else have seen this?

Martin


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> > R.
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