I discovered, that ALL applications, which are running at the moment, when the "Save Settings"-button is pressed, are mentioned to "ksmserverrc".
This happens at logout. ALL running applications are marked with a comma, so at next start they will not be loaded (yes, kwin, too !). Solution (workaround): 1. Save your settings and logout of KDE 2. open your ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc withe an editor 3. remove the comma before the required applications in this example, remove the comma before the word "konsole" restartCommand2=,konsole,-session,117f000001000104751255500000017960004 so it looks like this restartCommand2=konsole,-session,117f000001000104751255500000017960004 4. save and start KDE. Works ! I hope some developer might find out the reason for this wrong behaviour. Good luck ! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]