On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Steven P. Ulrick<lists-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone > I just ran "yum update", logged out and logged back in. I was greeted > with this: > http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20090825-Fedora11-ScreenShot-001.jpg > > More specifically, some of the icons on my desktop had little red > circles (with exclamation points in them) by them. At first I thought > something (else) really weird happened and I had a whole bunch of > broken symlinks. > > Then I clicked on one to see what happened. This is the result: > http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20090825-Fedora11-ScreenShot-002.jpg > > If I click "Continue" the application starts just fine, and the circle > with the exclamation point goes away "for that application." > > If for some reason, I decide to minimize the little prompt depicted in > http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20090825-Fedora11-ScreenShot-002.jpg > > the entire desktop gets dim (just like a window that does not have > focus is set to do on our system) and the little dialog minimizes just > fine. BUT, I have not been able to find a way to restore it after it > has been minimized. For all intents and purposes, the desktop is > locked up. I happen to have my desktop set to display a slide-show > that changes pictures every 15 seconds. This continues to work > properly. Pop-ups for newly received email work properly. But my > ability to interact with my desktop and start new applications is > completely and totally ended. The only way to get things back to > normal is to do "Ctrl | Alt | Backspace" > > Just to clarify, I have never seen this behavior on our Fedora 11 > system. It started IMMEDIATELY after the recent updates that pulled > KDE 4.3 in (I run KDE, by the way...) > > I have discovered quite a few new things so far after logging back in > after the recent updates. All of them that I have seen so far I > really like. This one I don't care for :) I can see why it could be > a good idea, but I don't like the fact that I am now forced to opt-out > of this new (to me) feature instead of "opting-in" > > So my questions are as follows: > 1. Where do I change the appropriate setting so that I can get things > back to the way they were before the recent updates? > 2. If a new RPM was pulled in with these updates that caused this new > functionality, what is it's name? > > I will look for answers to these questions myself as well. > > Thank you for any help you can give me. Hi Steve, I can just confirm that I have seen this on one of my machine after an update. I opened each and every application to remove that red colour image. I am not aware of its reason though. Thanks, Anoop > > Steven P. Ulrick > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
