Tom, I'll try and help with a few of your questions, however please don't try and evaluate Debian on the strength of KDE 3.1 Beta or Unstable. I do run Unstable and 3.1 Beta on a seperate partion from my Testing/KDE 3.03. And although KDE is Beta, it is pretty stable as is the Unstable OS but KDE 3.1 Beta does have some problems. (It IS a Beta!)
> I can login in to KDE3 and run, but I don't get the menubar across > the bottom of the screen, so when I minimize a window, I don't know > how to get it back! I'd thought 'kicker' was what I needed, but that > is installed fine. kcontrol is broken ... you can try finding the appropriate settings in the kd...rc files, but kicker panel was hard for me to find also! The default settings for that are to "not display". To fix that, run kcmshell panel from a command line. Change the Position as desired but most importantly change the Length from 0% to 100%. From memory I had found a way to display that from a menu but I can't find that now!!! Once you have the taskbar defined, you can get to that thru the K menu. > Your secondary question was about "Välkommen" That is the greeting that was "left" by the Swedish packager (Karolina Lindqvist - to be thanked for the 3.1 debs) and pgd is part of the login. As far as "Välkommen" I'm saving this for future KDM logins - It's a bit nicer than my English Welcome! As far as pgd ... you can define that from the kcontrol panel - login manager but since that doesn't work change the DefaultUser=pgd in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to the DefaultUser=yourid that is desired for login. Michael