Since I installed Mandriva, occasionally the window I am working on will
disappear suddenly and an application with a shortcut on the Desktop will
open.

Anybody else experienced this?

Doug L.
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On 2005-07-16, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
> Since I installed Mandriva, occasionally the window I am working on will
> disappear suddenly and an application with a shortcut on the Desktop will
> open.
>
> Anybody else experienced this?

Which desktop?  (There are more than one.)

Is there anything in /var/log/messages that might shed some
light?  Does your desktop environment capture stdout and/or
stderr from X applications anywhere?  How about in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (or other number if you're using a
different display number)?

If it happens frequently enough to be catchable, you might
get some information from starting a terminal window, then
starting your application from shell in that terminal
window, so the terminal window will show stdout and stderr
from the application.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

> On 2005-07-16, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
>> Since I installed Mandriva, occasionally the window I am working on will
>> disappear suddenly and an application with a shortcut on the Desktop will
>> open.
>>
>> Anybody else experienced this?
> 
> Which desktop?  (There are more than one.)
> 
> Is there anything in /var/log/messages that might shed some
> light?  Does your desktop environment capture stdout and/or
> stderr from X applications anywhere?  How about in
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or other number if you're using a
> different display number)?
> 
> If it happens frequently enough to be catchable, you might
> get some information from starting a terminal window, then
> starting your application from shell in that terminal
> window, so the terminal window will show stdout and stderr
> from the application.
> 
> Robert Riches
> spamtrap42@verizon.net
> (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Mandrake has two desktops available.  I use only one.  My WM is KDE.  It
hasn't done it for a few days now.  before it was 2 or 3 times in 24 hours. 
LE2005 seems to be largely a beta-test version.  I am seriously considering
going back to 10.1.

Doug.
-- 
ICQ Number 178748389. Registered Linux User No. 277548.
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        -- Woodrow Wilson

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote in news:hj4mq2-lka.ln1@dougshost.mydomain.org.au:

> Since I installed Mandriva, occasionally the window I am working on will
> disappear suddenly and an application with a shortcut on the Desktop will
> open.
> 
> Anybody else experienced this?

I have seen this with KDE.  About once a week KDE will launch an application from an icon which is clicked 
on but under the current application; as if it was on top.

-- 

Sincerely,

Tris Orendorff
[Two antennae meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception 
was excellent.]