On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Richard Barrass [RISCBSD] wrote:


> the user's $HOME/.xsession simply contains:
> 
> startkde
> 

What are the permissions on the .xsession? they should be -rwx-----

Try putting

echo about to startkde

before the startkde line and seing if 

about to startkde

appeares in the xdm-errors file. Actually while your at it add a #!/bin/sh
line as well 

you might like to check that startkde is in the users path or use the
complete path to it. if for example it's in /usr/local/bin:

(your .xsession ends up looking like this):

------cut here----
#!/bin/sh

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

echo about to start kde

exec startkde
------cut here----

and then make sure the permissions are right:

chmod u+rwx $HOME/.xsession


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Jasper Wallace                  Argo Interactive Unix Systems support