Well, I found that cups wasn't working properly and decided to remove it and put lprng in it's place. (a little knowledge can be REALLY dangerous). I launched Synaptic .24 then I selected all the cups packages (I believe there were 4 or 5 and they all started with CUPS...) and then clicked proceed. I got a window that popped up and I clicked continue. (Yes, I know, I should have checked what was going to be removed). Once everything was removed, I installed Lprng. I closed Synaptic and noticed that about 90% of my icons related to programs had turned to a generic icon. I then tried to launch Evolution, Netscape, Mozilla, Kedit, and I clicked on the KDE menu button but kept getting a window that popped up asking what program this should relate to. Panicking, I rebooted the machine. LILO started as normal, I selected SuSE, and processes seemed to start normally. I was expecting to get the login where I could select what WM to use like KDE or Gnome, but was instantly transfered to WFVM. Last night I I started yast (not 2 but yast, I'm running 8.0...or at least the terminal version of yast) and removed lprng and installed cups. I then rebooted. No luck. I then ran the command xhost + (thanks to the person that recommended that) and was finally able to get into YAST2. I couldn't find any dependency problems and wasn't able to figure out how to get KDE back. (BTW, last night I installed cups from the 8.0 CD. Before the "incident" I upgraded cups with Synaptic). Thinking Synaptic might find the problem, I ran it and updated the cups packages. I then rebooted. No luck. Still getting FVWM (or whatever it is). At this point I'm really stuck! I'm at work now and will try anything any one recommends, but I will have to do it later tonight (California time) when I get home...or maybe at lunch. Thanks, Tom On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 05:31, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > Now, what did I do at home??? And how can I fix it?? I won't tell you I'm going to fix it from here. But I can give you some starting point. What's really happening there? -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ] -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com