I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
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just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
don't need to reboot, just move one of them and they all will show up again.. if they all disappear, a few seconds wait will have them show up again. It's really annoying , and I haven't' been able to convince it yet that I want them where I want them ( right side of the screen ) There is an item called "arrange icons" on the right click desktop menu. I've attempted the "sort icons" which used to work in 8.o and maybe before that .. but it doesn't seem to "stick" this time around, although it WILL let some stay permanently where I put them.. only a few tho. Hope this give some useful info -- j Afterthought : Lead Me Not Into Temptation ... I can find it all by myself ...
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ... -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 12:21, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ...
same here, I just logged out and logged back in and they reappeared, but not sure why this happened, Mark
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 06:21, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ...
No, I didn't. Actually, I'm not sure how to do that without a reboot.
On Thursday 08 May 2003 03:13, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 06:21, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ...
No, I didn't. Actually, I'm not sure how to do that without a reboot.
Just log out to kdm (or whatever login manager you're using, kdm I believe if you have a standard install) and back in again. That restarts kde. You can go a stage further and restart the X server if you find that doesn't work, it should be one of the drop-down options on the login screen. Often all that's needed. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Thursday 08 May 2003 3:13 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 06:21, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ...
No, I didn't. Actually, I'm not sure how to do that without a reboot.
logout and log back in again... or else do a 'Ctrl' 'Alt' and 'Backspace' triple key combo to restart the X-server (this will shut down KDE and if you've got autologin enabled, then you should find KDE starting back up again or else, if not, you will be at the KDM login manager)
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 00:21, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 11:57, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I just had my device / path icons on the left side of my screen (SuSE 8.2) disappear. I rebooted the system and they came back, but I'm wondering what made them vanish. Does anyone have an ide? What about bringing them back without having to reboot?
Did you try restarting KDE without a reboot? Don't know why it would happen, though ...
I lost two icons on the desktop :CDrom and Floppy. They disappear when I close the ""SuSE update checker in the taskbar. Funny....................!!!!!!!!!! ?????????????? -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.
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I lost two icons on the desktop :CDrom and Floppy.
yeah, even weirder is why they want to move around. IIRC there was a similar situation in an older version of Suse, tho for my life I don't remember precisely which version. At that time the solution /workaround was to put the things where you wanted them and logout , telling the system to "save the session" when you log back in, the safer course is to uncheck that option. after all, if some naughty misbehaving program forces you to leave the desktop , or it leaves you. it wouldn't do you much good to keep logging back into that session, now , would it? -- j Afterthought : Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turndown the volume on the radio?
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