foolish question, but anyway... have you chosen the correct window manager when loggin in from kdm ? /gunner <div>2006/10/3, Scott <<a href="mailto:geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com">geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I had this problem months ago in Dapper (but never found a solution). Now I've decided to give it a go again in Edgy. Just like before I have both Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed. I've been using GDM but decided to switch to KDM. So I .... $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm And selected KDM as my choice. Then I rebooted. KDM appears. I enter my name and password. The screen blanks for a moment and I'm returned to the KDM login screen. I try logging in again. Same result. Just for heck of it. I went into a virtual terminal, logged in and did $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm and I selected KDM. Then I $sudo dpkg-reconfigure KDM and I selected KDM. Then I rebooted. Nothing changed. The problem remains. Then I tried. $apt-get remove gdm followed by $sudo dpkg --configure kdm. Then I rebooted. The problem still remained. I gave up and went back to GDM. Any idea what's causing this and/or how I can fix it? Thanks. -- Scott <a href="http://angrykeyboarder.com">http://angrykeyboarder.com </a> © 2006 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>