> I haven't been able to do much else in the way of testing > KDE because nothing else in KDE seems to be working.
It would appear that I missed the following instruction from the kdelibs package: Install notice: To use the KDE3 layout as default for the applications menu, as root: ln -sf /etc/xdg/menus/kde3-applications.menu \ /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu So at least now KDE is working. Now I can continue trying to find out why KDE is producing noise for its actions (login, logout, error dialog, etc.).