Actually at the moment my kdesktop hangs always ... I have to re-launch it to get it to work ... These are last lines from executing "strace -f kdesktop" and then selecting to run "kmines":
2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 904735}, NULL) = 0 2647 write(4, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@"..., 1576) = 1576 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 906743}, NULL) = 0 2647 select(15, [3 4 5 6 8 11 12 14], [], [], {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0}) 2647 read(6, "\0", 1) = 1 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 907081}, NULL) = 0 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 907271}, NULL) = 0 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 907496}, NULL) = 0 2647 write(4, "[EMAIL PROTECTED],\1\20\0;\0\5\0009\0"..., 1612) = 1612 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 908987}, NULL) = 0 2647 select(15, [3 4 5 6 8 11 12 14], [], [], {0, 95748}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 37000}) 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 968991}, NULL) = 0 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0 2647 read(4, "\3$\374\n\36>[EMAIL PROTECTED]"..., 32) = 32 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 gettimeofday({1082920821, 969519}, NULL) = 0 2647 select(15, [3 4 5 6 8 11 12 14], [], [], {0, 35216}) = 0 (Timeout) 2647 gettimeofday({1082920822, 5270}, NULL) = 0 2647 access("/usr/bin/kmines", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 2647 access("/usr/local/bin/kmines", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 2647 access("/usr/bin/kmines", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 2647 access("/bin/kmines", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 2647 access("/usr/X11R6/bin/kmines", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 2647 access("/usr/games/kmines", F_OK) = 0 2647 access("/usr/games/kmines", X_OK) = 0 2647 lstat64("/usr/games/kmines", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=253532, ...}) = 0 2647 ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 2647 write(7, "\0", 1) = 1 2647 write(3, "\2\2\2\0\376\0\0\0e\0\0\0", 12) = 12 2647 write(3, "\0\0\0\tkdesktop\0\0\0\0\nklauncher\0\0\0\0\nk"..., 135) = 135 2647 write(3, "\0\0\0T\0/\0u\0s\0r\0/\0s\0h\0a\0r\0e\0/\0a\0p\0p"..., 119) = 119 2647 read(3, "\2\5\0\2\37\0\0\0", 8) = 8 2647 read(3, "e\0\0\0", 4) = 4 2647 read(3, "\0\0\0\nklauncher\0\0\0\0\tkdesktop\0\0\0\0\f", 31) = 31 2647 read(3, 0x8054a50, 8) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) And when I select to kill it: 2647 +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ Regards, Robert