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I have a user who is running RHEL4 and using gnome as his desktop. He was running some design tools just fine, got up to talk to another designer for a few minutes and when he came back had some messages about applets having died. He dismissed them and then found that the toolbar at the bottom of the screen was blank. He then opened a window, minimized it and it appeared to go to the toolbar as an icon, but it disappeared into the blank toolbar. It could not be found by exploring the toolbar area with the cursor, but alt-tab would bring it back. It also appears that all the workspaces are either gone or inaccessable. We tried several things, notably full power down reboot, and the problem persists. He can switch to KDE and it works just fine, except that a couple of the design tools do not get along with it as well as they do with gnome. We tried switching back and forth between gnome and KDE a couple of times, and KDE still works and gnome still fails. In case it makes a difference we have an NVIDIA video card and the latest Nvidia driver as of about three weeks ago running. The box itself is a Dell Precision 380. Any ideas why this would happen apparently spontaneously, and also what might be done about it? Given the mindset around here, I doubt anyone monkeyed with it in his absence. We tend to be VERY harsh with people who do that.
I have a user who is running RHEL4 and using gnome as his desktop. He was running some design tools just fine, got up to talk to another designer for a few minutes and when he came back had some messages about applets having died. He dismissed them and then found that the toolbar at the bottom of the screen was blank. He then opened a window, minimized it and it appeared to go to the toolbar as an icon, but it disappeared into the blank toolbar. It could not be found by exploring the toolbar area with the cursor, but alt-tab would bring it back. It also appears that all the workspaces are either gone or inaccessable. We tried several things, notably full power down reboot, and the problem persists. He can switch to KDE and it works just fine, except that a couple of the design tools do not get along with it as well as they do with gnome. We tried switching back and forth between gnome and KDE a couple of times, and KDE still works and gnome still fails. In case it makes a difference we have an NVIDIA video card and the latest Nvidia driver as of about three weeks ago running. The box itself is a Dell Precision 380. Any ideas why this would happen apparently spontaneously, and also what might be done about it? Given the mindset around here, I doubt anyone monkeyed with it in his absence. We tend to be VERY harsh with people who do that.
