Michael Schuerig writes: >> Have you recently installed or compiled any non-default-debian KDE >> or Qt libraries ? > No. But the problem appears to be on my side of the fence. I've > tried kompare in a chrooted install and there it works. Curiously > (or rather luckily), I don't have any other problems of this kind. Did you change the setting of the KDEDIR or KDEDIRS environment variables ? cheers domi