scrambled desktops - again, and again, and again

[rikona]

Hello blind,

Saturday, November 23, 2013, 6:44:24 PM, blind wrote:

> rikona 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...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>   rikona

> This is just a wild shot in the dark; have you tried creating a new
> test account? If so, does it show the same problems?

That's a good idea - I'll try it.

> I have found that XFCE sometimes scrambles the contents of ~/.cache
> so that I have to logout, mv .cashe .cache.old and log in again.

That's a bit like the reboot I do. The real problem is losing work
when pgms are randomly closed, although from the above perhaps they
are not really closed but just 'invisible'. If I could only solve the
'invisible' problem, and thus not lose work, this would be less
serious.

Thanks,

 rikona