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