For the last week or two -- it's so easy to just close it so I don't know how long -- the "Run command" box (the Alt-F2 thing) has been coming up every time I log in on both my laptop and my netbook -- but *not* my work desktop machine or either of my husband's computers. All the computers are running Fedora 10 with KDE 4.2. I don't know (a) why this would have started happening or (b) why it's only on some computers. Anyone else seeing this? Any clues why it might be happening? Thanks, MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universit?t M?nchen and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh