On Saturday 18 November 2006 18:16, Jamie Bohr wrote: > > Can I assume there is no functionality built into KDE & Gnome to start a > process when a person logs in (I am able to do this) and stop it when they > log out (this seems to be the problem)? In kde : programs are started if they are put in ~/.kde/env and programs in ~/.kde/shutdown are run when you log out. If this helps ...