I used Konstruct to compile KDE 3.2 beta 2 from the sources on my Mandrake 9.2. I created a new user to test it and did "cd konstruct/meta/kde; make install", so the installation was done in ~/kde3.2-beta2. Before launching startx, I set the variables like it is written in the README of Konstruct : export QTDIR=~/kde3.2-beta2 export KDEDIRS=~/kde3.2-beta2 export KDEDIR=~/kde3.2-beta2 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.2-beta2/lib export PATH=~/kde3.2-beta2/bin:$PATH export KDEHOME=~/.kde When I launch it I've got this desktop : http://ps2zfrance.free.fr/snapshot1.png I don't understand what is wrong... Thank you if you have any ideas... Nicolas. Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34?/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34?/mn) ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.