Craig White said:
> one other thing...if the shutdown were so abrupt as to not allow KDE to
> do it's housekeeping... you might need to delete these files from your
> home directory...
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 craig    dom_users       74 Jan  1 21:06
> .DCOPserver_lin-workstation.azapple.com__0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 craig    dom_users       54 Jan  1 21:06
> .DCOPserver_lin-workstation.azapple.com_:0 ->
> /home/craig/.DCOPserver_lin-workstation.aza
>
> rm ~/.DCOPserver*
>
> should do the trick

Thanks for the tips, Craig.  The box is for tinkering so I was not too
concerned about loosing anything.  I took the following route:

- Killed X as in your first email
- Deleted the .DCOPserver* files in my home directory, as above.
- Renamed the ~/.kde directory to ~/kdeOld (mv ~/.kde ~/kdeOld)
- Restarted X with startx

This caused a brand new ~/.kde tree to be created and came up fine.  Now I
just need to adjust the few icons and few settings that I lost.

REMEMBER everyone "listening":  I don't consider this a general fix
proceedure for the problem I encountered.  Because I did not care about
loosing things, I did this proceedure.  YMMV.

BTW, I did not loose my actual desktop icons or the test emails I had on
the box.  Just the rest of the KDE settings.

Alan