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> However, in addition to running my conky display from
> /root/.kde/Autostart, I realized that KPersonalizer was not running. That
> provides confirmation that Trinity starts out honoring $KDEHOME for root
> but then changes sometime after. Trinity must be reading the startupconfig
> file from /root/.kde in order to not run KPersonalizer. So although
> KDEROOTHOME helps avoid some of the problems I described, there remains
> something awry with the way Trinity starts out correctly and then veers
> off course.
>
>

I found an error in startkde that would result in no KDEHOME variable
being set; you may want to update to revision 1176220 or higher and
recompile, especially if you try to run Trinity as root!

Tim