Am 05.11.2014 um 11:31 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know why, sometimes, when I log in to KDE via KDM, all my > applications have disappeared? Sometimes they're visible in the task bar but > clicking on one doesn't bring it up, and sometimes the task bar is blank. > Sometimes logging out and in again used to fix it, nowadays mostly not. > > The only thing that's unaffected by all this is gkrellm, which is set to > behave > as a dock or panel. > > It's as though a new Activity had been created without action by me, but no > amount of fiddling with the New Activity button gets me any closer to an > understanding. Personally, I'd be happy to have the whole concept of > activities stripped out. I don't suppose there's any way for me to do > anything > like that as a user or sysadmin? > > This happened to me again yesterday, and I ended up creating a new user from > scratch and importing e-mails, copying the .mozilla and .opera directories > and > so on - only to find that that's been hidden today as well. >
have you tried restarting plasma? Or switched screens? i have occasionally lost programms from the task bar, switching desktops brought them back.