> > I haven't seen it, do you know of any bad side effects not > > using Xshm ? > AFAIK it's only used in kdeui to cache pixmaps, i.e. if one process has > loaded a pixmap, another doesn't need to re-load it. I'm re-compiling as we > speak so I shall let you know what happens. Seems to be working fine. Simply configure with: --enable-mitshm=no Regards Chris