I am running SuSE 8.1 I had a working version of kde 3.1 beta 2. I installed this by donwloading the binaries from download.kde.us.org. I did a rpm -Uvh --force kde* because it said there was a conflict between the new kdebase3 and keramik. Everything worked fine after the install. Later I added kde-unstable to my sources list in apt. I am using apt .54. Using synaptic, I did an apt-get update. This revealed some newer kde packages. When I tried to upgrade it said conflict with keramik (and some number like 202 etc). I did an rpm -e keramik (since I had updated the kdebaase3 I figured I didn't need keramik) and then did an upgrade from synaptic. Everything went fine. I ran SuSEconfig and ldconfig. Upon reboot i get the same graphical login screen. I clik on mikecoan, enter my password. kde is specified as the windowmanager. i click Go, or hit enter, and Windowmaker starts up. I used Yast to switch to runlevel 3. After loggin in as mikecoan, the command startx kde still starts Windowmaker. I tried WINDOWMANAGER=kde export $WINDOWMANAGER That didn't help, but I may not have the syntax right. Any ideas would be appreciated.