Hi! It has been discussed a few days before how to setup kdm to use a login shell:
in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession change the first line from: #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash --login ok. i wonder if this should be the default (it seems to be default for xdm/gdm) as some packages need /etc/profile sourced. For example jumpnbump ;-) It installs a binary into /usr/games/jumpnbump, but without a sourced /etc/profile, the starter script availabe via debians menu system is not able to start the game... Maybe there are many other affected packages? Regards Henning