tasos wrote: > hello people and nice to meet you.i have asked for > help in irc but no luck.suddenly i tried to start kde > as a normal user but it didn't.i created a new user > and kde started.it also starts as root. > i have no EE in my log file.i tried to copy .kde from > another simple user and nothing happened. > what can i do please?i need my desktop.btw by mistake > i deleted my .kde in the process of making it work but > it doesn't bother me. You might have a socket problem or a problem with your: "/tmp/kde-<user>" directory. With the KDE Session NOT running: Try deleting the contents of the directory: /tmp/kde-<user> and all files in: /home/<user>/.kde/socket-<host> and restart. -- JRT ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.