It usually does that if the program registers a 'system tray icon' or
applet.  It needs to have the gnome toolbar running to do that.  Most of
the programs will let you disable that feature. (ie. Gaim) and then it
won't launch the toolbar & icons.

Cheers

.mark



On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Robert Fox wrote:

> I've become a convert from Gnome to KDE since the 2.0 release - my only
> complaint is a strange issue I have sometimes.
> When I run a Gnome based program (ie: Gnapster) under KDE - sometimes
> the entire GNOME desktop icons appear on top of KDE icons and I can't
> get rid of them - even after logoff and re-login.  The only solution is
> to blow away my .kde and Desktop directories and start fresh  - which
> means all my custom config is lost . . . .
> 
> Any tips would be nice . . .
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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