On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:25 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > Anne, > > I had such an experience for a loooong period until I realized (with the > help pf list members) that it was a problem (conflict) between mdk8.1 and > kde3 when using *any* screen saver and/or power saving! > > I have disable all those features and for now I'm just using the 'padlock' > icon on kde3 to 'protect' the monitor *and* for long periods, turning off > the monitor power!! > > Those logouts almost drove me crazy, they could happen **any** time... not > only for 'power saving' and screen saver, with some nice motifs, > conditions! ;-(( > > So far I've found the problem not the solution though.... > > rgd, > > > Ricardo > > >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, > >> KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting > >> away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login > >> screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been > >> affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so > >> there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption > >> too. > >> Anyone any idea what might have happened? > >> Anne > > > >Anne, > >well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, > >able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an > >accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server > >crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the > >files you had open if that.
Thanks Reicardo. I'm still on KDE2, but I'll check out the power saving etc. I thought I had disabled them all, but I may have missed something. Anne
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