kdmthemes broken in hardy ?

[takowl]

This sounds a bit like an issue I had, which was related to ATI graphics drivers. If it starts happening again, and you also have an ATI graphics card with the proprietary drivers, can you upgrade to the version of xorg-driver-fglrx in hardy-backports--that solved it for me.

[akwatve]

Yes, I do have an ATI card and proprietary driver. I will try your suggestion if it happens again.
But for now I don't want to fiddle with a running configuration