[Solved] Banshee killing all programmes

[Grandad]

I am running Mint 11 [tried 12 but had had some problems with it] on a Packard Bell EasyNote LJ71 [4Gb RAM]

The one big problem I have at the moment is with Banshee. It works perfectly, but every time I run it, it kills all existing programmes. As soon as it appears on screen, everything else vanishes without any kind of warning or error message. If I want to run it, I have to close everything first, run Banshee and then open up Firefox or whatever.

I have tried a complete reinstall from the repositories [version 2.2.1]. No go.

I tried searching but can't find a solution there.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[Dotslash]

Try adding the ppa https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa

[Grandad]

Thanks for that.

I added the ppa, and did an update. I then reinstalled Banshee. Fired up Firefox, Thunderbird and Banshee in that order. Firefox and Thunderbird vanished.

I don't know if this is relevant but if I try to reopen Firefox, all tabs etc are lost. If I reboot the machine Firefox restores as normal.

[Grandad]

A confession - I was caught out by my own lack of familiarity with Linux. Banshee was merely opening up in a new workspace.

Sorry about that...