I've been running KDE4 with Suse 11.2 for some months now, with no problems. Yesterday, the background to my screen suddenly went black. Open windows were unaffected, but I could see my theme, the task manager, etc. I couldn't open any programs other than the ones already open (and ones that they launch). This problem was system-wide, in that it affects all accounts on my machine. I thought I'd solved the problem after discussion with someone by email, by forcing KDE to recreate itself. I did this by mv ~/.kde4 ~/oldkde4 then relogging. This, in itself, seemed to make matters worse, so I went mv ~/.kde4 ~/newkde4 mv ~/oldkde4 ~/.kde4 and relogged. To my surprise, everything worked thereafter for a few hours. I think this was coincidence, because, after a few hours, the same thing happened and the "fix" didn't work anymore. I checked .xsession-error and it says /etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started. sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method). Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_GB.UTF-8 ... There is no default input method for the current locale. Dummy input method "none" (do not use any fancy input method by default) startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kded4.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so Invalid D-BUS member name 'idle-hint' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'is-local' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'remote-host-name' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'session-type' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection X Error: XSyncBadAlarm 166 Extension: 146 (Uknown extension) Minor opcode: 11 (Unknown request) Resource id: 0x0 X Error: XSyncBadAlarm 166 Extension: 146 (Uknown extension) Minor opcode: 11 (Unknown request) Resource id: 0x0 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kcminit_startup.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so <unknown program name>(4335)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating: "Marianne;1283173265;746516;4335_TIME0" : "unnamed app" kephald starting up XRANDR error base: 176 RRInput mask is set!! ".xsession-errors" 369L, 28810C Anyone got any ideas? This is making things extremely difficult for me, to say the least. Rapid responses would be highly welcome! -- All the best, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org