* PR (prooroa@wanadoo.nl) [020519 14:33]: ::you make it sound hopeful again. ::I now have kdm with a kde3 and kde2 option but ::get a weird dcop message when I try to run kde2 :: ::what is the reason for using tar instead of copying the links? Yes, it's keeps the file structure together and you'll get all the links. So cd into .kde2/share and type this .. tar cvf applnk.tar applnk Then you can move the .tar file into .kde/share and just untar it. It will copy the stuff that's in the tarfile into the applnk directory exactly where it should be. It's just a nice way to make sure you get everything and it's in the right place. The reason your getting the dcop error is that KDE3 is now specified. I would try something like this. Put this in your .bashrc (it's the default shell..unless you changed it). KDE2DIR=/opt/kde2/ QT2DIR=/usr/lib/qt2 export KDE2DIR QT2DIR KDE3DIR=/opt/kde3/ QT3DIR=/usr/lib/qt3 export KDE3DIR QT3DIR Understand I don't know if this will work ..it's a guess. Someone else may be better equipped to help you with this. I started running KDE3 the day it was released as stable. It's got it quirks..but I haven't tried to use KDE2 since..just the apps from KDE2 which work pretty good. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--