-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ever get the feeling that computers "know" when they are about to get replaced? [or the OS, at least?] I just had something REALLY STRANGE happen to me, and it is no secret that SuSE 8.2 is "on the way" Mind you, I keep my workstation logged in and running 24x7 [I live alone, so little or no security risk there] and this session had been running since the 1st. In any case, around midnight I took a break like I usually do to watch the meager anime offerings on cartoon network. When I came back ALL MY ICONS WERE GONE! Not only that, but "right clicking" the desktop wouldn't bring up a menu [I'm running KDE 3.1.1, BTW] and even more curious, when I switched to desk #2, the background [which rotates amongst three choices] didn't change to any of those choices -- it was still the image that is on desk #1 It's alive, I tell you Fortunately, the bottom task bar was still functional, so I could get a shell session going and take a look around -- it turns out that my "desktop" items were still in the Desktop directory, they just weren't displaying [everything ELSE about my desktop worked, even switching from one to another, but no icons, no "refresh", no "pop-up" menu, or anything like that was possible] Equally fortunate, "clearing this up" was a matter of simply exiting and restarting my "X" session -- no reboot required -- but it was strange all the same. Has anyone else seen "strange" behaviour for sessions that have long uptimes? - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+noEqV/YHUqq2SwsRAjn4AKCIkQB1SPst+Nk9bDjzHSrldVrJLACfc9hq oy/Ge0syeVomCh6n5mzbIjc= =/zVm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----