On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
Anne, I had such an experience for a loooong period until I realized (with the help pf list members) that it was a problem (conflict) between mdk8.1 and kde3 when using *any* screen saver and/or power saving! I have disable all those features and for now I'm just using the 'padlock' icon on kde3 to 'protect' the monitor *and* for long periods, turning off the monitor power!! Those logouts almost drove me crazy, they could happen **any** time... not only for 'power saving' and screen saver, with some nice motifs, conditions! ;-(( So far I've found the problem not the solution though.... rgd, Ricardo >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: >> I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail >> and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when >> suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I >> shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - >> I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. >> Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. >> Anyone any idea what might have happened? >> Anne > >Anne, >well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, >able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an >accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server >crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the >files you had open if that. -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user ==========================================================
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