Hi Paul, Tks for your advice. > it is not on a menu. You run it from the command line: > > # switchdesk kde # switchdesk kde Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Red Hat, Inc Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License Desktop now set up to run KDE. It did not change, still on Gnome desktop B.R. SL