I just bought SuSE 9, which I am very impressed with. After using it for about a week, I have run into a trivial yet annoying little problem:

I use AIM for linux and it has been fine this last week and on every other linux box I have used in the past. Out of the blue, AIM has started to load up but wont display the window in KDE for my default user. When I log into the machine as root and load KDE, AIM works fine. Its only with my regular account that I run into this problem. The program seems to load and I can see AIM on the panel at the bottom of the window manager. The window just wont dislplay. I do not have enough linux experience to troubleshoot this problem, as nothing I've tried has worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • SuSE 9
  • KDE 3.1
  • AIM 1.5.286

-NeuTron

****Update***** Here is what I get when I run "ps -A" while AIM is acting like its running but wont display the window. Seems odd that it isn't assigned to a TTY.
***********@*******:~> ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:02 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
5 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
6 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
7 ? 00:00:00 kinoded
8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
11 ? 00:00:00 kreiserfsd
836 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
839 ? 00:00:00 klogd
898 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1017 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd
1039 ? 00:00:00 cardmgr
1178 ? 00:00:00 portmap
1265 ? 00:00:00 acpid
1267 ? 00:00:00 sshd
1400 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
1539 ? 00:00:00 master
1683 ? 00:00:00 cron
1686 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1688 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1689 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1690 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1691 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1692 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1693 ? 00:00:00 nscd
1768 ? 00:00:00 kdm
1822 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
1823 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
1824 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
1825 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
1826 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
1827 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
1828 ? 00:01:14 X
1830 ? 00:00:00 kdm
1865 ? 00:00:00 kde
1911 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1914 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1917 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1920 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
1926 ? 00:00:07 kdeinit
1930 ? 00:00:26 artsd
1932 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1933 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
1935 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1936 ? 00:00:05 kdeinit
1939 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
1941 ? 00:00:06 kdeinit
1989 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
2070 ? 00:00:18 kdeinit
2072 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2096 ? 00:00:03 kdeinit
2098 ? 00:00:01 kamix
2103 ? 00:00:01 susewatcher
2104 ? 00:00:05 suseplugger
2107 ? 00:00:05 kdeinit
2109 ? 00:00:00 kalarmd
2134 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
2159 ? 00:08:12 mozilla-bin
2165 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
2166 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
2167 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
2168 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
2169 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
2190 ? 00:00:00 netstat <defunct>
2192 ? 00:00:00 esd
2194 ? 00:00:04 xchat
2209 ? 00:00:05 kmail
2230 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
2234 ? 00:00:00 kdesud
2863 ? 00:00:00 pickup
2864 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
3294 ? 00:00:00 aim
3301 ? 00:00:01 java_vm
3302 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3303 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3304 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3305 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3306 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3307 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3308 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3309 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3311 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3313 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3314 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3316 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3317 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
3318 ? 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
3319 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3321 ? 00:00:00 java_vm
3335 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
3336 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
3352 pts/1 00:00:00 ps