Hello-- From this link (sorry you will have to reassemble the long string) I restored my system notifications. Quoted without attribution: I read a message on a message board that said to edit (as root) the file /opt/kde3/bin/startkde. There seems to be an error on line 242: LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit The line should be split into two lines like this: LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit Apparently the knotify program wasn't getting started when KDE starts up. This fixed the problem for me. I've read several messages about rebuilding the ARTS source rpms, but I didn't have to do that. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/\ thread/8f918e01f7007b2d/05557defa68a3154?q=arts-1.4.0-8.i586#05557defa68a3154 I hope this helps Tom Wekell