greetings,

during past week or so, i have been having problems with mozilla firefox locking up kde desktop and i have to open a terminal to reboot system.

to insure that i get kde back to a desired state, i make backups of
~/.kde path when ever i change any settings of kde.

after system reboots and desktop manager is displayed, i
to terminal, delete current ~/.kde, then copy ~/.kde-backup to ~/.kde.

while in terminal, i run ‘ifconfig’ to see if network is connected, which it is, so i ‘sudo ifconfig eth0 down’ to disconnect.

after starting kde, wicd icon in system tray is showing wicd has connection to network, which it does not.

when i click wicd icon and then select ‘disconnect’, and close wicd window, then reopen wicd and select ‘connect’, there is no connection.

a 3rd problem i see with ‘wicd’ is in post “Subject: wicd problem”;

3: wicd blocking 1st attempt connection for firefox and yumex