How is KDE4 supposed to be used ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 20:04 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 11:45:36PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Dave Feustel <dfeustel <at> mindspring.com> writes:
> > > Neither xterm nor konqueror is in the menu list as far as I can tell.
> > 
> > Konqueror is definitely in the menu!
> > 
> > As for xterm, if it isn't listed in the menu, that's a bug in the xterm 
> > package, please file a bug in Bugzilla, all GUI programs are supposed to be 
> > registered in the menus! (But why don't you just use Konsole?)
> 
> I used konsole for quite a while, but I experienced wierd behavior that
> seemed to target konsole. I switched to xterm after konsole began
> starting up with non-stop repeating of 'i' on the command line even
> when I wasn't touching the keyboard. Another problem I experience
> even now with xterm is that the first 2 characters I type on a command
> line after a period of inactivity just don't echo. This has happened
> so many times that I reject the possiblity that I am not pressing
> the keys hard enough.

I experienced similar problems.   I had a problem where if I copied and
pasted something into console, it would automagically repeat the paste
later.   Kind of scary when operating as root !