On 06/24/2009 10:29 AM, Charles J Smith III wrote: > here's a strange one... > while waiting for the reply, i logged in as root and created a new user > to see if i could duplicate the same issue with just a terminal box in > the bottom right corner. i restarted and that user worked perfectly, kde > desktop came up smoothly. so i logged out and went back in as my > original user and it worked perfectly as well. go figure. i know this > isn't a fix but it appears to working fine. My guess is that you may have selected the "KDE (failsafe session)" the first time. -- Rex