All, I updated my home machine (U40) to from build 108 to build 111 from the SWAN-internal ips servers (I haven't seen an announcement for this build on indiana-discuss), and after I'd rebooted, I saw the same problem I'd seen on older builds on other machines (see $subject). Moving aside .kde and trying anew only helped as long as I didn't change any of the appearance settings.
The only theory I have that Xorg was updated... Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
