Lately I tried a couple times to start using BOINC again, after it became too new for the previous Slackware. I had run the following script on boot or after starting X/KDE.

#!/bin/sh
# start/stop/restart BOINC

# start BOINC:
boinc_start() {

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/lib/boinc
su u -c /usr/local/lib64/BOINC/boinc&
su u -c "/usr/local/lib64/BOINC/boinccmd --join_acct_mgr http://bam.boincstats.com/ account password&"
su u -c /usr/local/lib64/BOINC/boincmgr&
cd

}

# Stop BOINC:
boinc_stop() {
  killall boinc
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  boinc_start
  ;;
'stop')
  boinc_stop
  ;;
*)
  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

When I run this, it does not give me the option to connect to BAM--I suppose my command already does it, which I think it should. However, sometimes this script starts a GUI client that calls itself a second boincmanager, or maybe this is after I switch to advanced mode and it lets me login to BAM. Then, when I login to BAM, it does not show any of my projects. I think I had to synchronize it to login, but I also recall having to login individually even though I have a BAM account. I do not really recall the process of running BOINC, but none of this is my main problem, which is that sometimes when I start the GUI client and even get to the point of choosing to synchronize with BAM, all the menu bar menus disappear except part of the letter 'F' on the 'File' menu. I am running xorg 1.12.13 and KDE 4.5 in a framebuffer. All other GUI programs display fine.