Hi Chris, > Ok I've got a program called kerry that runs a daemon: beagled
Do you really need it ? I guess you can install the components of kde-extras manually, without beagle... > Then there is: kio_pop3 running from Kontact/Kmail. I never heard such problems with kmail before. Are you on a dialup or is your network (wlan?) suffering from huge latency ? Still you could try, for example, a smart mailer like Sylpheed-claws, which has great advanced featues for custom filtering and actions, or (more common but not smart) evolution or thunderbird. > Then there is artsd, but that doesn't happen all that often, but will > definitely eat more than it's share, but not by much. Weird. Are you sure it's not kernelspace or the sound backend (like alsa) causing problems ? Yet, you can tune down the level of desktop sounds in kcontrol. > Openoffice.org once and a while will entirely stop the desktop Openoffice always had some minor problems, in my experience, expecially wiuth window managers. But it's not eassy to keep such a complex thing ready for different OS and archs...But there is no real alternative. Be patient. > need to ssh in to restart KDM Not even ctrl alt F1 possible ? Weird. Make sure there are no kernel problems behind (look into kern.log and dmesg). m°