[ale] KDE mis-behavior

[rhia]

Forgive the horrible infractions of netiquette, responding to my own
post as well as top-posting, but just realized that somehow I left out
what most caught my attention and prompted me to respond; how the system
acted on reboot. Very odd behavior, white outlined boxes, etc. I had a
whole paragraph typed up on the similarities prefacing the -Manager
section, but editorial cutting apparently went too far. 
(Irritating holiday elves...)

rhia

On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 21:21 -0800, rhia wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 19:00 -0500, Drifter wrote:
> > Just finished an update and rebooted. In all, 94 updates, including
> > the kernel ( 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 x86_64)
> > 
> > Weirdness ensued.
> > 
> Probably not anything at all helpful ...
> but
> 
> I run Gentoo (Enlightenment as my window manager, with bare bones Gnome
> and a few KDE apps riding on top) and did an emerge world update earlier
> today (120+ updates) with different but, if you REALLY stretch the
> definition, somewhat similar weirdness.
> 
> Lots of annoying idiosyncrasies requiring numerous adjustments; system
> didn't remember the basics, but held onto the minor details. Window
> manager and various applications held onto some information, but not
> all. 
> -Manager forgot my desktop settings, but remembered my preferences.
> -Applications forgot my irc servers and channels, or timezone, or (well,
> lots of various apps forgot lots of ... odd ... things) but remembered
> my nicks and other preferences.
> -And so on.... and on ... and on. 
> 
> Irritating bordering on bizarre at times, but, considering the
> hybridized bastardization of my system, I hadn't really thought about it
> being beyond my system's idiosyncrasies until I read your email. Updates
> included mostly X with some KDE and Gnome. Honestly, I still think my
> set up had more to do with the issues I ran across, but ..... always
> open to hearing other ideas. 
> Before anyone makes comments, I'm fully aware Gentoo is quite different
> from Ubuntu - I've installed and run numerous distros. Almost didn't say
> anything at all because they are so different on so many levels, but the
> coincidental timing caught my attention.
> 
> All back to normal now, but, I haven't seen this before the latest
> updates either.
> 
> Maybe it is just holiday elves. =)
> 
> rhia
> 
> 
> 
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