The steps to replicate the desktop icon problem are: 1.) Set the screen saver interval to something short like 1 minute 2.) Wait for screen saver to activate 3.) Move mouse. Viola, icons are now gone.
Working on this...
I'm about to return to my testing, but for me, I did not have to wait for the screen saver to activate.
All I needed was to invoke the lock and then immediately restore.
Darrell
You probably have your system configured with a lock delay, correct? The issue seems to be in the code that is triggered before the screen is actually locked with a password.
Tim
Never mind, I can't seem to reliably trigger the problem now. Suffice it to say that I am continuing to work on it, and that further testing on your end of this problem at this time is likely a waste of time. :-)
Tim
Some additional information: one symptom of this problem is kdesktop_lock not exiting properly and going zombie, e.g. ps aux | grep kdesktop_lock shows something like user <pid> 1.1 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:45 0:00 [kdesktop_lock] <defunct>
This indicates a problem in kdesktop itself.
Tim