Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (2008-11-19 14:37 -0600) wrote: >>1) Is a login shell run when the user logs onto KDE (even though he >>does not see a konsole window)? > > Nope a login shell is when bash is executed with the -l option, or having > an argv[0] starting with '-'. If K Display Manager (kdm) is installed file "/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession" executes user's login shell, for example "$HOME/.bash_profile" which in turn might source .bashrc too.