Gnome, Nautilus, KDE anomalies

[Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>]

I am running Woody with backports.  I have KDE 2.2.2 and Gnome 2.  I
mostly wanted Gnome 2 so I could run a recent version of Gnomemeeting,
but I installed lots of the rest of it anyway to get anti-aliasing for
gnome based apps, try it out, etc.  I sign into a KDE session.

Some odd things are happening.  When I sign into a Gnome session, the
apps appear, but no window frames, title bars, controls.

In KDE, I have 4 desktops, each with it's own background.  This loads as
expected and I see my chosen backgrounds, but after a short time (less
than a minute) all four display my Gnome background, along with the
default 3 icons that appear on a Gnome desktop (I never left any new
icons on the Gnome desktop, so I don't know if those would appear too).

I can't get rid of the Gnome background.  'ps ax' shows several nautilus
sessions running, and 'killall nautilus' gets rid of the Gnome icons,
but not the Gnome background.  Right clicking on the desktop does not
get me a context menu.  All appears well when I run the KDE control
center - my chosen backgrounds are all as expected, but they don't
appear on the desktop (some Gnome thing on top of them?).

The frameless windows in Gnome desktop have been that way for a week or
two, but the KDE problems only started 2 or 3 days ago.  'chkrootkit'
finds nothing obvious.  I am investigating firewalls, and tools to
configure them (iptables), and that might coincide with the KDE
problems, but might be coincidental.

I'm behind a Gateway/Router/NAT/firewall on a cable modem.  I'm trying
to learn enough to set up firewalling now, but this is in the way of me
studying any more.

Any suggestions?  Or questions?  I'm some newbie/some knowledgeable, so
it would help if you told me how to find out anything you might want to
know about my configuration.

Thanks for any help,
Bret

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bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu