Kent, Thanks for the advice. It worked perfectly. My KDE panel is back to normal! Peter Kent West wrote: > And finally, to get back to a usable KDE, the easiest way (albeit you'll > lose preferences, etc) would be to rename (or more drastically delete) > any files/directories in your home directory referring to KDE, such as > .kde and .kderc. Of course you'll need to do this prior to starting KDE > again, but that's another issue.