Okay. Well I guess I'm partially an idiot, and partially I feel duped. running "startx" in fact DOES run KDE just with the 'bluecurve' theme (in fact, according to the faq, you should NOT run 'startkde' anymore). That's my first mistake. I thought 'bluecurve' was a whole different, RedHat proprietary _window manager_ (since I'm used to KDE's look), not just a theme. The second mistake is the 'desktop switching tool' is "stupid". By that I mean, it doesn't know WHICH desktop you're running!!! So every time, it just defaults to the top/'Gnome' button being selected, consequently, I assumed that 'bluecurve' was in Gnome or related to it somehow (when in fact I was in KDE all the time). Leaving the button on "Gnome", saving, and restarting proved a bit more fruitful, in that now I was running in Gnome -- however, it STILL LOOKS like 'bluecurve'. So the very fact that RedHat made their bluecurve 'theme' look the same under both gnome and kde is what was throwing me off. UGH! I can see how some might like that idea, but the least they could have done was change the background or something, so I know. The only way I figured it out, was to go into some "about" sections and noticed one would talk 'kde' and the other would talk 'gnome'. Very frustrating.
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