The problem with DCOP server is caused by missing entries in the startkde file. Below is a patch that should fix your startkde file to make KDE3 work again. Good luck. Oh and sorry about this not threading correctly, I lost the original email and pulled the subject off the SuSE web site. --- startkde~ Mon Mar 25 04:21:44 2002 +++ startkde Thu Mar 28 20:18:28 2002 @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ # The user's personal KDE directory is usually $HOME/.kde3, but this setting # may be overridden by setting KDEHOME. # -KDEMAINDIR=/opt/kde3/ +export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 +export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3:/etc/X11/kde3 +export KDEMAINDIR=/opt/kde3/ [ "$KDEHOME" ] || export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde [ -z "$KDEROOTHOME" -a "$UID" == "0" ] && export KDEROOTHOME=$HOME/.kde echo "$PATH" | grep -q "${KDEMAINDIR}bin" || export PATH=${KDEMAINDIR}bin:$PATH