Following some Fedora updates (Week of October 7th), the normal user has his active programs disappear when minimized, and they do not reappear when switching desktops or using the alt-tab character sequence.

A second problem is that ctl-alt-f1 through ctl-alt-f6 has ceased to respond (for text mode), and that ctl-alt-f7 does not always restore gnome if by chance one chose ctl-alt-f8 and then returned to ctl-alt-f7.

Any ideas what to do? Other logons appear to work ok, so I know that I can use one of them and I can do some file fiddling to recreate the logon that is not working correctly.

Is there a better way?

Leslie in Montreal

You seem to have run into some bugs in Fedora. I suggest that you take a look at Fedora's Bugzilla site. If your bugs have already been reported then you might find a fix or a work around posted on Bugzilla. If your bugs have not been reported then one of your contributions to open source can be reporting Fedora bugs.


http://www.fedora.info/bugzilla/

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Steve Stites

Steve

Before I take that route, I want to state again, that three other logons work fine. Therefore, something got corrupted with my logon.

I believe that it is a Gnome problem, and not a Fedora problem and will be raising the bug report with Gnome.

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Did you ever figure out your user switching problem?

I have been having a problem with fedora (10 now) when I leave the desktop with "lock screen", I don't get the full user logon list... in fact, I get some sort of limited thing, and I can't log back in.

I haven't been able to remember the Ctrl-Tab thing for opening a new terminal so that I can put the system into a proper reboot cycle, so I just end up shutting it off with the power switch (Dell Inspiron notebook dual booting with Vista).

This all started one time when I had some system lockup problem and shut it down with the power switch. I am thinking that there is some sort of configuration file in Gnome (?) that needs to be fixed.

bbneo

Whenever a GUI under my purview flips out, I reset its configuration. Just delete the .gnome and .gtk folders in the user's home directory. If some confugration was fubar'd during the update, this will clear it up.
P.S. this will reset the gui to its default settings.