I'm running SuSE 8.0, and most of the time I use KDE. At the weekend I was trying out a few of the programs listed on the KDE taskbar, in particular GDict, which is a GNOME program, under the Office heading. This program began to load but no window opened up on the desktop. However, the GNOME desktop panel opened on my KDE desktop. Now everytime I start the computer KDE loads and then the GNOME panel also loads. I have noticed that its sometimes not there after KDE has freshly started but then if I run some programs such as Kppp then the GNOME panel appears. I don't want both of these desktops working together but can't find a way of exiting GNOME so that it doesn't reappear in KDE. Someone suggested removing all the the .gnome and related directories from my home directory. I tried this, however, when I rebooted the gnome panel reappeared and of course it regenerated all the .gnome directories. I suspect there's a KDE configuration file somewhere that I could edit but I don't know which one. Any ideas how this problem could have been caused and how to resolved it would be gratefully received. Cheers John Satherley