I may have already asked this, but still havn't resolved the problem. In ~/.kde/autostart, I have 2 xmessages set up, which show up on the desktop when logging in. As I have multiple distros on this machine, one xmessage simply tells me which distro I've booted up. The other xmessage shows when the distro was last updated. Now I'm quite happy with the KDE session being saved, but the problem is with the xmessages which are saved, because when next logging in to KDE, the shellscripts which produce the xmessages are being run again, and I end up with multiple instances of the xmessages on the desktop. Someone suggested setting a timeout for the xmessages, but that's not really what I'm looking for. Is there some way to exclude the xmessages being saved, but still save the rest of the session when logging out of KDE? Perhaps I'm asking a bit much, but worth asking the question. Nigel. btw. this is on both KDE3, and KDE4. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.