Hi, After a monster pile of updates, including many for KDE 4.5, I was left without the plasma desktop. A bit up experimenting and Web-hunting led me to KDE bug 251719 [1], which is deemed the fault of the nVidia driver. I devised a work-around based on the following statement by Aaron Seigo at the end of that bug page: "it's crashing when the clock applet tries to get the time DataEngine. this is crashing somewhere in the library loading code in glibc. try downgrading your video driver. i don't think this is something we can do anything about in plasma, however." The work-around is to remove the clock applet from the tray. I did this by finding references to it in these two files: ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-overlay-appletsrc I simply commented out the sections of config there that mention "clock": ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- #[Containments][3][Applets][11] #geometry=1684,4,180,60 #immutability=1 #plugin=digital-clock #zvalue=14 # #[Containments][3][Applets][11][Configuration] #Share=false #announceInterval=0 #calendarType=locale #defaultTimezone=Local #displayHolidays=true #holidaysRegion=us_en-us #plainClockColor=20,19,18 #plainClockFont=Sans Serif,38,-1,0,50,0,0,0,0,0 #showDate=true #showDay=true #showSeconds=true #showTimezone=true #showYear=false #timeZones=UTC #timezone=Local #useCustomColor=false # #[Containments][3][Applets][11][Configuration][ExtenderItems][3] #extenderIconName=view-pim-calendar #extenderItemName=calendar #extenderItemPosition=0 #extenderTitle=Calendar #isCollapsed=false #sourceAppletId=11 #sourceAppletPluginName=digital-clock -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-overlay-appletsrc -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- #[Containments][1][Applets][2] #geometry=6,6,256,256 #immutability=2 #plugin=clock #zvalue=0 # #[Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration][ExtenderItems][1] #extenderIconName=view-pim-calendar #extenderItemName=calendar #extenderItemPosition=0 #extenderTitle=Calendar #isCollapsed=false #sourceAppletId=2 #sourceAppletPluginName=clock -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- NOTE: If you want to go back to your old clock config without reestablishing it via the panel GUI, you'll have to save the original files (-desktop-, anyway), cause after the first launch, the commented-out config blocks were gone. [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251719 Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org