I'm currently running kde 4.2.4 and I haven't experienced the issues you mentioned, have you tried start from an empty configuration (removing $HOME/.kde4/)?
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Edgar Kalkowski<em...@edgar-kalkowski.de> wrote: > Hi list! > > I am using current KDE 4.2.4 from core and am experiencing these two little > things that are not really disturbing but rather annoying: > > 1) Every time I quit okular it crashes and shows a crash message. A quick > search of the web brought up that this was “a minor regression in kdelibs“ > and should be fixed by now (sorry, I don’t remember the actual site I read > this on). So my question is: Is anyone experiencing the same problem and has > a fix? Or do we really just need to wait for an update of KDE? If so: Is an > update planned or do we have to wait for 4.3 or 4.2.5? > > 2) Every time KDE starts up it shows (after a little while) the following > message in a native X dialog: “Could not start ksmserver. Check your > installation.” If I click on “OK” or kill the message window X restarts. A > web search on this one revealed nothing really helpful so now I’m just > leaving the message window open on an unused desktop. When doing this > everything seems to work normal and as expected. In fact “ps -elf | grep > ksmserver” reveals that the specified program is indeed running. Does anyone > get this error, too, and perhaps knows how to fix it? > > Thank you in advance! > > Edgar >