Robert A. Rawlinson wrote: > I am new to Python. When I tried to start it on my Suse 9.1 system I got > a KDEesktop message that said: Service 'searchproviders/python. Desktop > is malformatted. > What is this and how can I fix it? TIA > Bob I was using the run in the start menu. It worked fine when I used a shell to start it. Bob