(Thanks and humble appols for not doing proper check myself, I'll learn!) For the benefit of others, edit /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers find the line :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp add vt7 so it reads :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7 et voila! rich.