I'm running FC12 so it's not quite the same but usually 1 version in FC isn't a big deal. This is my KDE base ver. kdebase-4.3.5-3.fc12.i686 Noticed you seem to be a minor version back from me. Do you use manual or automatic updates? Try a yum update and see if you get new KDE stuff bringing you up to 4.3.5.3 Haven't lost that functionality myself though I haven't rebooted after most recent KDE upgrades. I usually only reboot for security fix kernel upgrades or if the power fails. Takes way to long to open everything back up again to reboot more than a couple times a year. If you log in as root does the functionality return? Are you getting any SELinux alerts? Last few years it's gotten where the first thing I look at is SELinux when something suddenly fails. Not sure where KDE would log any errors. Don't remember seeing any in .xsessionerrors or in any of the /var/log files. Maybe KDE has just been really well behaved for me :) Hopefully that functionality doesn't vanish for me if I reboot. I use switch user quite frequently. Very helpful when walking somebody through something in Gnome if you are looking at basically the same thing they are. ___________________________________________________ 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.