After falling out with KDE4.2.4 and using fluxbox for a while, I was sufficiently impressed with my experiments with KDE4.4.3 in slackware 13.1 that I decided to go back to KDE. In particular I'm keen to use plasma netbook on my eee pc 1000H.

But I've hit an annoying snag. The problem is that if I set it to use plasma netbook (System settings>Desktop>Workspace>Form factor>Netbook) it works just fine for the rest of that session but next time I startx it goes back to the Desktop form factor.

The strange thing is that this didn't used to happen, it only started recently and to the best of my knowledge I haven't made any other significant changes or updates to the system. I tried removing the ~/.kde dir and letting kde setup from scratch but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

Similar experience here. Also I found that the Netbook format would not save its own settings - it keeps returning to its defaults (things like favorite apps, etc.). I finally gave up and just use the regular format.

Good to know that I'm not alone.

Bizarrely, the problem has now fixed itself - I've absolutely no idea why!

Maybe both plasma-netbook and plasma-desktop are launched from launchers in systemsettings>startup. I have those in startup folder, netbook is currently disabled.