heya... it seems that the new dbus breaks xfdesktop and thunar: jens at laptop ~ $ thunar thunar: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory re-compiling them didn't do the trick and I doubt that creating a symlink to the new library will work. jens -- Jens Luedicke web: http://perldude.de/