I've been trying to get KDM to handle .xsession files the way I presume
they're supposed to work,
Actually, KDM doesn't directly support ".xsession". If your: "Xsession" file doesn't source it, then it does not get run.
First, as I mentioned above: KDM does nothing with your: ".xsession" file. All KDM does is call: "Xsession" with the session type string as the parameter. E.G.:that being to let you set up and run a whole bunch of programs automagically every time you log in. There's not really a mechanism to do that in KDM, as far as I could see - you either get to choose you WM and no programs, or your run your .Xsession file that has the WM written in as the last line.
That's kind of gross, so I put together a workaround, a marginal hack that lets me take my old .Xsession file and use it under KDM, while still letting me choose different window managers.
The details of it are here:
http://neon.polkaroo.net/~mhoye/blarg/archives/001645.html
I'd be happy to hear any suggestions.
Xsession kde
What happens after that is TOTALLY dependent on your: "Xsession" script, and that script is *very* distro dependent.
I don't have a: "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/" directory. This is probably distro dependent, although it appears to be a reasonable idea. The important thing is that the scripts in it will NOT be run unless the: "Xsession" script sources them. :-(
-- JRT
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