On 04/20/2010 07:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > KDE is now stable on my new laptop (latest Intel graphics driver) - as long as > I stick to 'KDE failsafe mode'. That seems to disable compositing - but I > don't know what else is missing? I thought that's all that failsafe did, was disable compositing. Check your ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc to ensure compositing is not enabled. -- Rex