Yep. Write accessability was the problem. Works like a charm now..... wait. I haven't started the window manager KDE yet but the other K programs work so I can hope! I figured that one out all on my own! Now if only I would figure things out BEFORE I post my questions. On Friday 12 December 2003 10:36 am, Michael Havens said: ~ ~ Well, ~ This is fun. Kde won't work. When X starts up everything works fine but when it starts to load KDE it tells me: ~ ~ The following instalation problem was ~ detected while trying to start KDE: ~ No write access to ~ /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority ~ ~ So I sat there scratching my head. What in the world do you do in this case? Well this a dandy thing to have happened. So I tried some other program managers. Everything else runs but 'K' apps. When I try to run 'K' apps I get the following error: ~ ~ kdeinit: aborting. No write access to ~ /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority ~ Error: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup ~ DCOP communication. ~ ~ You know, I look at this and know how to change write access. But what about this 'DCOP' thing> ~ :-)Mike(-: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet ~ Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. ~ Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your ~ E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. ~ ~ ~ http://www.vei.net/ ~ mailtospamtrap@vei.net ~ --------------------------------------------------- ~ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ~ To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: ~ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ~ -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net