i use just kmail rather than all of kde, but i noticed that during an upgrade in the somewhat recent past, funky boxes started showing up whenever i pressed ctrl: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/kmail-weird-boxes.png i'm told they're accessibility features, but i cant seem to find the location in kcontrol to turn them off ... someone point me in the right direction ? :) -mike ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.