When I installed v11.4/KDE on this system some weeks ago, its background was a tannish grey with a kind of grey horizontal barberpole effect, as I remember, with black lettering. I do not remember setting a specific color, and I am unable to find a setting in Configure Desktop/Personal Settings (formerly System Settings). Some days afterward, I noticed that the background has become a dark grey (still with black characters), so that reading te lettering was very difficult or impossible; only the presence of icons makes this panel useful. I have no idea what caused the change. Nothing else on the desktop has a black background. A few days later, the colors returned to their original state, but another few days later became black again. You can see what this looks like at <ftp.hashkedim.com/pub/panel1.png>. I have a second panel at the top of the screen which is, if anything, in worse condition: most of the vertical height of the "barbarpole is overlaid with a black strip, so that panel has become totally useless. What is doing this? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org