hi there (especially branden), i already posted this to debian-user (VERY positive response), debian-devel (somewhat sceptical response) and two xfree86.org mailing lists (no response at all *grr*) some time ago. now i realized, that i've forgotten the most relevant list. :) the patches for different xdm versions/derivates can be obtained from http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ob6/sw/xautolog.html i hope, you consider it being useful ... regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster - join http://www.distributed.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]