Hi James, thanks for your help. I will have to check this evening. I must admit that I never had to care that much about the Xsession file. In Gentoo you will find a subir to /etx/X11 which includes a file for every session type availlable at login. These just include the statkde command. Adding or removing files here does the trick for KDM up to KDE3.2alpha2. I made a quick check of the kdm helpfile but it seems to relate to the "old" version with the dropdown menu. I will give some news how, it went tomorrow. Christian ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.