A kicker error message series (from the .xsession-errors file) has the following form: kicker: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. I cannot tell whether it is related to any misbehaviors. Anyway it is an ERROR, so it shouldn't happen. Any checks to find out its cause? thank you -- Pol ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.