> The session manager shutdown is actually a 2 or 3 phase > affair, and each > phase waits for apps (including kicker, kdesktop, things in > your task > tray, etc.) to shut down normally before forcibly > terminating them. There > are several opportunities for delays, and debugging this > further will > require an instrumented build of tdebase that can profile > the delay > introduced by each phase. > > This shouldn't be too hard to look at, please file an > enhancement bug report. http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=760 We can file additional information when we start troubleshooting, but as a habit I close all apps before exiting. KAlarm, KMix, KwikDisk, Klippy, and Akregator are in my system tray, which must be closed when exiting. I run with one instance of Konqueror preloaded in memory. Most of the kded daemons are running too. I'm willing to collect data if anybody offers ideas. Darrell