[wondercow]

Hello all,

I did a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.1 a few days ago and selected the GNOME desktop. However, I use a few KDE programs, specifically Amarok and Ktorrent because I prefer their interface/features over their GNOME equivalents. Whenever I quit the KDE4 version of Amarok or Ktorrent while using GNOME, Compiz will get turned off (not sure if it's crashing or just quitting). When I quit those programs, the screen will flicker and all my windows will redraw, and all my Compiz plugins will be turned off. If I then go to Desktop Effects in Control Center, the "use desktop effects" box will be unchecked and I have to activate it again.

One note is that this only seems to happen when I quit the KDE4 version of Amarok (version 2.0). If I quit Amarok 1.4, my desktop effects keep running unphased. I haven't tried an older version of Ktorrent, but I am suspecting it would leave my desktop effects alone as well.

Has anyone else seen this happen? Have you had any success fixing it? Any ideas how I would go about diagnosing this?