scrambled desktops - again, and again, and again

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 11:48:37 PM, Colin wrote:

> On 21 November 2013 02:47, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 5:47:50 AM, compdoc wrote:
>>
>>>> Agreed - that is one of the first things I did. :-) I usually use
>>> diskutility - it gives a bunch of smart info.
>>>> The disk seems fine - passed, no errors at all - it is a pretty new disk.
>>
>>> That's perfect. At least the drive is good...
>>
>> But - the problem is still there... :-( I'm assuming since there are
>> no other replies that others are not seeing this. It seems like a
>> software problem because it happens when I do some [usually file]
>> operation - opening, closing, saving etc. That does sound like it
>> might be a possible disk issue which is why I checked it first.
>>
>> Any suggestion for which log(s) might give useful info? Is there a way
>> to track what the windows are doing with respect to the desktops? This
>> might give some clue as to what is happening...

> Are you running standard Ubuntu with Unity (plus the extra packages
> you have installed)?

Yes - includes some KDE pgms but not the whole of KDE. Problems seem
to be mostly associated with packages - LO [especially with ppt
files], audacity, okular, etc, and, as I think about it, occur with
[mostly? all?] 'foreign' files, not files I made. In the 'fragile OS'
state, though, competely different instances of otherwise-good pgms
[editor, file manager, Opera FF, etc] are suddenly closed [or perhaps
well hidden] with all work lost.

> Have you tweaked Compiz in any way?

No - if things run, I'm not a tweaker. :-)

Appreciate the reply and help...

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 rikona