Choppy,

I want to help you fix the problem you showed us last
night. I apologize that I wasn't able to fix it there
when you showed it to me, but I am confident that it
can be fixed.

As I mentioned, some app that KDE is starting or
trying to start is causing your problem. You have a
couple of choices:

1. Try to log the problem as it is happening.
2. Don't start KDE.

I recommend the latter.

KDE is started from either your $HOME/.xinitrc or
/etc/X11/.xinitrc file, or something similar. There
should be a line similar to "exec kde" in one of those
files. You can simply change it to "exec
someotherwindowmanager", if you have another window
manager installed.

Because KDE and Gnome are both desktop environments
rather than just window managers, they both run a lot
of apps to provide a framework for other apps to run
in. Basically, you don't need em at this point in your
Linux adventures.

I'm not sure why you are having a problem. I don't
think I've ever seen KDE fail like that. Have you let
it run for a while to see if it merely a process that
needs to time out?

I would like to see your .xinitrc file and any other
KDE config files you have. Can you sneakernet them to
another box and email them to the list?

John Hebert

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