On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby for > some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I didn't think > that was possible). The most obvious sign that this has happened is the > background picture set under KDE disappears and the right click on the desktop > is ignored (no menu pops up). I get no messages in /var/log/syslog when it > happens. > > I'm running the pure64 port of sid with KDE 3.3.2. I think, but I can't confirm > this because it doesn't happen every time, that it has something to do with > Open Office or the chroot it is running in. I say this because the problem > seems to occur after I start Open Office (it might just be the screen saver > though but it seems more common with OO). > > I have my /home NFS mounted which is then bound into the chroot as is a /data > directory. /data holds the background picture and is accessible to both the > main system and the chroot (in other words it's not an NFS problem). > > Any ideas? Make sure you are not accidentally starting nautilus. It will happily take over your session. I have had this happen to me in WindowMaker. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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