Indeed, in gutsy this issue is gone. There is another minor one, which is related. When on vt1, try "/etc/init.d/kdm stop". This will switch away from vt1 and display the remnants of the usplash theme (Kubuntu Logo with the word "Kubuntu" and the empty, black filled progress bar underneath). This also happened in previous versions of Kubuntu.
With gdm no switchaway from vt1 occurs... -- Screen flickers when unused (vt8) session dies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105422 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs