Hi, Having solved my system notification sounds problem (thanks to Leen Meyer) and my mail authentification problem (thanks to Sven Burmeister), I'm now on to dealing with some more minor issues. To wit: 1) Marching desktop icons. Every time I log in my icons creep around. One row moves many pixels down. Other icons move a little. This is apart from the bug (now quite old) that causes all icons to march upward on each restart of KDE or, I'm now noticing, every time the taskbar is hid (slid to the right) or unhid. 2) An alternate desktop image flashes on the screen momentarily before being overwritten by the one I configured (a dynamic image that's updated ever 15 minutes using a custom cover script for xplanet). Number (1) is really bugging me. Number (2) is quite minor. Has anybody else witnessed these symptoms? Does anyone know what's up and how I might resolve or work around them? Thank. Randall Schulz