KDE start troubles

[Michael Hirsch]

My work system has trouble when I first log in.  I'm running 13.04 on a 64
bit machine with plenty of RAM and CPU.

When I first log in, the panel is mostly non-responsive.  I can mouse-over
the icons and they will highlight, but clicking on them doesn't do
anything.  I can't even get the K menu to appear.

If I switch to a virtual console, I can start konsole displaying in my KDE
session.  From within that konsole I run my "kdedkill" script which kills
kded and then runs (kdeinit kde4) things are back to normal.  Not only is
my panel responsive, but all the things I tried to do (clicking icons,
opening K menu, etc) take effect.  The programs I clicked all launch and
the K menu opens and closes.

I think this started happening when I upgraded in June.  I have no clue
what is causing it.

Possibly related: emacs won't start in graphical mode, even if I turn off
loading my .emacs file.  It does run in text mode ("emacs -nw"), however.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael
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