On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:37 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Wait, I am using KDE (vanilla 4.2, not kdemod) not SLiM. Should I do > something analogous for KDE? KDE 4.2 has native consolekit integration when using kdm, so in that case there's nothing you have to change. If you want to use startx, you should use "exec ck-launch-session startkde4" instead of just "exec startkde4".