<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That's new for me, I actually never had the idea to check if the apps run in the background... </blockquote><div> Running ps aux from the terminal will show you a list of the processes running. I have never waited long enough to see if the applications finally open (as you described in your first post), what I usually do is using kill as an act of desperation. (kill <processid> after running ps aux) But you have to make sure to have an open terminal before the weird behavior happens, because last time I got it I wasn't able to open it either. Another thing I noticed was that when having the problem, I plugged a usb flash memory and when it recognized it, a Nautilus window opened (as expected if not having the problem), after that I was able to open more Nautilus windows using the File-> New Window menu, but only that worked, if I clicked on the Home icon or any other, everything was the same (No windows open). Really weird. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> And to wether disabling DHCP (using a static adress) works: No, it doesn't. I tried it but the problems occured then, too... So I'm went back to using Network Manager and thus DHCP...</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> And the problem did only happen to me once in the last 10 days, so I decided to just live with it... But please post any fixes that you might find!</blockquote><div> Maybe I will have to live with that too. If I find something I'll tell you for sure. Regards, Juan Carlos </div> </div>