in konsole run "w" or "who". do you see yourself? open 10 konsoles - no users will be logged in - it's empty. However, logging in on consoles tty1 for example shows, and running "who" from xterm from KDE shows /dev/pts/x user too. Just logging into KDE and running "who" returns nothinh, "w" returns USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT ------------ Any ideas apprecated! SERGIE!