What is your hardware?
dmesg says what?
use alt-f2 to run
ps aux > attachment.txt
and attach attachment to an email the next time this happens.
I have tried to reproduce the behavior here and cannot.... I
must be missing something.
And I really want to know why it is happening.
Civileme
Ivan Trail wrote:
>
> Jay Summet wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The following has happened to me three times now, intermitantly.
> >
> > I'll come back to my computer after my screensaver has been on (Kmatrix.kss)
> > and type my password. The SS goes away, and I get my desktop with whatever
> > programs were on it, BUT, there is no taskbar & menubar from KDE (without the
> > task bar I can not "un-iconofy" minimized programs, and without the menubar the
> > only way I can start applications is to use the ALT-F2 command run window.
> >
> > I generally kill off my Xserver at this point and log back in. However, I was
> > wondering if there was an easier way (like perhaps running an xterm with
> > the ALT-F2 trick, and then starting whatever process is supposed to be making
> > my taskbar/menubar).
> >
> > Anybody know why this is happening? Suggestions on what to try when it does?
> >
> > I'm running a perty standard Mandrake 7.0-2 install.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jay Summet
>
> right clikc on the "background" ie where there are no windows or icons, and click
> on execute program and type in kpanel.
