> this is really strange. following a reboot, things seem okay again, > but then it starts up and goes to the point where everything is > unusable. this with (k)ubuntu 12.04. > > not accusing TDE -- i try to keep current on all upgrades, so some > other "fix" might be to blame. just thought there might be a changed > default or something that i needed to reconfigure. You'd better do a complete reinstall and purge your .trinity folder. I had a simillar thing on debian squeeze 2 (?) years ago. I never found out what caused the "remapping". The only cure was a vomplete reistallation (and double checking that no KDE4 packages got installed in the first place - but that's not imortant any more, at least on wheezy). Nik