I have a couple of problems on my N900 that I am trying to resolve, and I need some advice.

First, I noticed that the only time I can change the desktop background is immediately after I boot the device. I have to start tapping the desktop as soon as it appears, and it takes a minute or so before everything is booted up, and the images dialog will come up. After that point, when i tap the desktop and the little gear, then hit change background, sometimes it appears that the dialog is popping up, but ti disappears. Other times, it does not appear at all, but the icons and widgets on the desktop I am on disappear and come back (as if a shadow of the dialog comes up but not the whole thing).

That said, I was doing some research on the system, and found that I had two instances of /usr/bin/hildon-desktop running. I killed the second one, and tried to bring up the change background dialog. It comes up and then disappears again, if I do it immediately. Otherwise, it does the momentarily disappearing icons and widgets. So should two copies of the hildon-desktop be running? If not, where do I turn off the second one? I have tried killing one then the other, but they come back.

The other problem is that widgets seem to disappear. It happens at random, but I only run (thus far) omweather and the calendar home widget. It has happened with one or both running, and even when I just used the calendar applet.

Is this a badly behaved applet, or is this problem related to the two hildon-desktops running?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
--vr