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I resolved this.  KDE was usurping control - arrrrgh!

Eddie Bush wrote:
> I can managed to set the background mode to "dark" and get that to stick 
> - but the default face is having no affect on the rest of them - it 
> simply is causing my screen to flicker from black to white and then 
> black - and finally white.  What gives?