On Wednesday November 20 2019 21:03:52 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > I guess that the XX or YY used during kded at startup is a low number (00 or >01?). It seems to me that it should use a much higher number so that it >won't collide with a tty that would later be used for real work; but ideally >that output ought to go to a log file instead. If you feel strongly enough about this you could file a ticked on bugs.kde.org, against the kded framework . It could indeed have a commandline option to redirect its output to a logfile. R