Are you running a special theme?  I've something like this as well, but I 
blame it on the liquid theme (older version).  After kicker is restarted the 
freeze is over.

Op zaterdag 30 maart 2002 04:34, schreef Matt and Sarah:
> I have a problem with some kde apps freezing my desktop.  The symptoms
> are that certain applications (mostly Konqueror and Kcontrol centre)
> will freeze my screen from time to time - this does not happen all the
> time with these applications, and it seems to occur randomly.  Knode,
> Kate and Krusader seem to be fine.
>
> Even though the screen is frozen, the system is still running, the mouse
> still moves, but i can't click anything.  Also i can't switch to another
> terminal using ctrl+alt+F1, nor can i restart the X server with
> ctrl+alt+backspace.  Trying to use alt+sysrq+r has no effect either.
>
> I have heard of a couple of similar issues with other people.  It seems
> this started happening when i converted to XFree86-4.2.  It happens with
> KDE 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3RC3 (RPMS) and 27032002CVS (compiled from source).
>
> I am running Mandrake 8.2 (although it happens on 8.1 also).
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this conflict would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Matt
>
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