"Jeff Sheinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real problem is with kdm/gdm/xdm logins, in that a proper > login environment is not established, and even worse, it is > nowhere documented that this is the case, and how to workaround > it.
Yes, it is probably a bug in kdm and friends. I solved the problem by putting "#!/bin/bash --login" as the shebang line in the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession script. (I log in via kdm to start KDE, but I don't use the KDE session type from kdm. Instead, I use the Xsession session type and then put "exec startkde" in ~/.xsession. -- ~/.signature