(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #18) > Would be interesting to have a look in the log output of your plasma desktop. > You might run something like > > ps ux > > to get the the process table of your session. The interesting part here is > the pid of the starting session script. With this it should be possible to > see what files descriptor for standard error is used: ok, "what" identifies the process table of my session ps ux | grep ...... or ??? > ls -l /proc/<your_pid_here>/fd/2 > > this should be the file where the messages are stored. remember, I was old before SuSE was born :)