On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:23:46AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Well, there does remain the fact that ~/.xsession does not need to be > an sh script, but I totally agree; Debian should not require > ~/.xsession to be executable. I don't think any other Unixes do. The session start script at U Waterloo uses logic something like this: if [ -e ~/.xsession ]; then if [ -x ~/.xsession ]; then exec ~/.xession else sh ~/.xsession fi fi I like it. Have fun, Avery