Version: unspecified (using Devel) OS: Linux Hi, I don't know if this is a bug or a new KDE 4.8 change. In KDE <= 4.7.3, when I stop an activity the applications which are running on it are killed and when I start the activity the applications are executed again. This was really *useful* and I guess this's activities' goal. Unfortunately, this do not more happen with KDE 4.8 (current git). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - Open kwrite in an activity - Stop that activity - reboot - Start the same activity Actual Results: kwrite doesn't start Expected Results: kwrite start KDE 4.7.80
so i just tested and at first i was able to reproduce. however, i then restarted both kwin and kactivitimanager and it started working. can you try: kquitapp kactivitymanagerd kactivitymanagerd then see if it works.. if it doesn't, then next try: kwin --replace & and see if it works. my current theory is that one of the two is having issues with the dbus calls they are trying to make.
(In reply to comment #1) > so i just tested and at first i was able to reproduce. > > however, i then restarted both kwin and kactivitimanager and it started > working. > > can you try: > > kquitapp kactivitymanagerd > kactivitymanagerd Yeah, restarting kactivitymanagerd made them working as in 4.7 again!
aha.. ok.. when you log in next, can you comment here again noting whether it works or not? i'm guessing that it's an on-log-in issue. one i may have fixed today in response to this bug report, but i'm not 100% sure. as it seems you are building from source, if it does still fail for you on log-in, can you update the kactivities repository and then see if that works better on log in? thanks.
I just tried with the latest kactivities git and everything is working. I'll send a mail to Dirk to ask if this fix can be included in 4.8beta1.