kde and xfce

[Gene C.]

This is mainly about FC2-T2 x86_64, kde, and xfce.  Running kde on FC2-T2 x86 
is more or  less OK although a bit strange (what in the world are the little 
"htt im" window boxes that follow the active window).

OK, this was a fresh install of FC2-T2 on an ASUS SK8V with an Opteron 140.  I 
have been mostly using gnome/metacity but decided to give kde a try.  Oops, 
it starts but then doesn't do much (cannot start terminal or do much of 
anything but logout).  A couple of gray (blank) windows come up also.

I also gave xfce a try and it is pretty much the same ... cannot do anything 
but logout.

This is NOT selinux related ... I booted up enforcing=0 (permissive) and it 
worked the same way.

Before I spend a lot of time gathering info to report this, is this a known 
problem?  I assume that there are some people who prefer to run kde out there 
and have not seen any messages about this situation so I wonder if it is me 
or my hardware that is the problem.
-- 
Gene