When I first start KDE, the icon text under the desktop icons does not wrap. It is all on one line. This results in the icons being out of alignment as kdesktop presumably tries to prevent the text from overrunning text from other icons (although it fails at this too in some places). If I killall kdesktop and start it up again from the command line, the icon text displays correctly. The problem appeared randomly, then went away (also randomly), and now it is back. I cannot seem to isolate what is causing it. Upgrading and downgrading kdebase makes no difference.
I should add that I'm using kdebase-3.5.1-r3 Here's emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre5-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-suspend2-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks keeptmp keepwork sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups directfb divx4linux doc dri dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd fame fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libcaca libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdf pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg svga tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi win32codecs xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Still a problem with KDE 3.5.2?
See comment 2 wrt kde-3.5.6
