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.
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.
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.
Wow. I hear the X-Files theme.