Mysterious loss of desktop features then shutdown

[rustleg]

I ran the beta from the DVD to see if it would restore the settings on a plugged in USB stick and it did. Then I opened up Chromium and started to do a few things including changing some settings. I shut down Chromium then everything except the desktop background and the trash icon disappeared. I couldn't figure out how to invoke anything from here.

The only things I could try was to click the trash icon which did come up with Nautilus. I then tried changing the desktop theme in case that would make the borders and menu reappear. While it was loading the PC decided to shut down (gracefully).

I believe I tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del at some stage, maybe this was what caused a (delayed) shutdown?

The only other clue was that in tweaking the Chromium settings I messed about between a setting which toggles between using the GTK theme which puts in a top line of Chromium's window or using Chromium's own theme which removed the top line, and I kept that (not running Chromium at present so the description of this setting is a bit vague). Maybe Chromium removed some GTK stuff it shouldn't have messed with?

[Kevin McAleavey]

Feb 3, 2012 9:14:42 GMT -5 rustleg said:

I ran the beta from the DVD to see if it would restore the settings on a plugged in USB stick and it did. Then I opened up Chromium and started to do a few things including changing some settings. I shut down Chromium then everything except the desktop background and the trash icon disappeared. I couldn't figure out how to invoke anything from here.

The only things I could try was to click the trash icon which did come up with Nautilus. I then tried changing the desktop theme in case that would make the borders and menu reappear. While it was loading the PC decided to shut down (gracefully).

I believe I tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del at some stage, maybe this was what caused a (delayed) shutdown?

The only other clue was that in tweaking the Chromium settings I messed about between a setting which toggles between using the GTK theme which puts in a top line of Chromium's window or using Chromium's own theme which removed the top line, and I kept that (not running Chromium at present so the description of this setting is a bit vague). Maybe Chromium removed some GTK stuff it shouldn't have messed with?

Chromium is a tad buggy, but nowhere near as bad as Epiphany and only slightly less so than Firefox. I haven't managed to do that myself but yes, it does appear that it stomped hard on the GTK stuff. I'll pass a report on to the developer and see if they can do something about that.

We added Chromium because some folks had complained that they like Chrome, and since there's no version of it for BSD's, Chromium was what appeared here. We added Epiphany in our 8 version because people demanded "Safari" and frankly, I don't care for either of them myself, but figured we'd give folks what they wanted as long as it was possible to do. Firefox has been getting pretty long in the tooth since their 4 version as well. My kingdom for a decent browser! (and no, Opera is a disaster on BSD's - we were planning to but could never get it to work right)

As to ctrl-alt-del ... yep ... that's the byebye whistle after a 60 second wait. That's a panic mode that should have popped up a "byebye" window but if Chromium eated GTK, it probably eated that as well.