> I installed icewm and it works just fine. I don't really want to install > gnome, because I prefere KDE and don't have enough diskspace to just try > gnome out, but I bet it would work. Oh, man, this is funny. I just found a "workaround" for my problem: If I switch to a text-console eg. with ctrl-alt-f1 kde starts up normally in the background. Is this some kind of KDE bug??? /Really/ strange. Daniel