Hi, This is a follow-on to my previous message / thread, "Gnome Application Appearance Under KDE." I've tried several of the suggestions given there, but none produce the desired results. For one thing, the appearance that was displayed by Gnome applications when run under KDE cannot (seem to be) replicated any more, regardless of which Gnome theme I select. Secondly, Gnome settings are affecting the appearance of KDE applications. And lastly, Gnome settings are not persistent, unless I place the following "gsd.desktop" file suggested by Trey Sizemore into "~/.kde/Autostart/": -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- [Desktop Entry] Name=gnome-settings-daemon Exec=gnome-settings-daemon \ --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon Terminal=false Type=Application -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- (As with Trey's post, the "Exec=" line wrapped in the email. I've signified that with the backslash, but I don't know offhand whether the KDE desktop file parser treats those as a shell would.) If I include this file, then the Gnome settings are activated upon KDE login, but I'm pretty sure this is not how things were working before the latest YaST-supplied updates (from the supplementary for 9.1 repository). I say that because with this .desktop file in the KDE Autostart directory, I see a taskbar tile corresponding to this application, but it just stays there displaying the "bouncing cursor" until the launch feedback times out. I never saw that before. The most salient effect (possibly the only one) that the establishment of the Gnome settings has is to shrink all the font displays _in KDE applications_. Perhaps this is due to Gnome altering the monitor resolution setting that had previously been in effect. While this makes Gnome applications appear in a more normal size (as in, more like what I was used to), it makes KDE applications display fonts too small. I can still read them and, of course, can reconfigure the applications, but I really don't want to do this. Does anyone have definitive information (or a reference to such information) on how KDE and Gnome interact? And most of all, can anyone tell me how to keep Gnome from affecting KDE? I really want KDE to be in charge and I need something better than the Gnome / GTK defaults that are now being displayed by Gnome applications when running under KDE. The old way was much to my liking and this new situation is barely tolerable. Thanks in advance for any information anyone can supply. Randall Schulz