Not really sure what happened. More amused than anything.
Two days ago, I had two browser windows, steam, and two other applications open across the two monitors on my machine.
While interacting with one browser, everything else vanished. Steam wouldn't respond via the panel, but I could launch games in the recent list. Alt-tab only had the browser, nothing else.
Nothing that vanished was on other workspaces. (I thought I'd somehow managed to switch the active browser to a new workspace, but maybe not?)
Today, two reboots later (I shut my computer down at night) about an hour after I booted up, the browser that disappeared came back. Same pages and even paused where the video had been at disappearance, which hey great, but still weird.
My computer is a Bermuda triangle.
6 Jul 2026 06:50
Poltergeist in the machine?
6 Jul 2026 06:57
Do you have a taskbar? Did they disappear from there too?
I run KDE plasma desktop on my laptop, and my home and work monitors have different geometries.
On display attach/detach, the desktop moves windows around rather intelligently but sometimes the geometry messes up and the window may end up atbsome ridiculous coordinates outside display areas.
On a desktop computer with multi monitors, the displays are loaded one after another at boot or resume from display-off mode, so the same geometric bug can still trigger.
6 Jul 2026 08:26
That's just your past coming back to haunt you.
6 Jul 2026 08:42
My computer is a Bermuda triangle
I'm not familiar with that manufacturer and model 😄
6 Jul 2026 09:30
The missing programs were not on the taskbar, they just poofed away all at once as if they'd been closed. (Nothing on taskbar for other workspaces) Certainly didn't expect one to reappear a few days later. >.<
If it's some esoteric geometry bug, it's a darn tricky one.
6 Jul 2026 10:42
Not surprised. Most who got that manufacturer will never be able to report online.
6 Jul 2026 10:57
what DE/WM are you using? is it wayland based? I know sometimes if xwayland messes up it'll result in stuff like steam, discord, games, etc just showing a blank screen/see through to the desktop.
6 Jul 2026 13:06
Wow. I hear the X-Files theme.
6 Jul 2026 14:11
Mint (Cinnamon) - Mutter (Muffin)
Haven't gotten too far into customizing/switching things up yet, still learning.
See through items would be almost as amusing as vanishing items.
6 Jul 2026 15:05
Lemmy
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