Taken from http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53345 :
------- Additional Comment #18 From C Gatzemeier 2004-06-02 19:29 ------- Hmm, if I understand this correctly, even the current "pressured" implementation of this [profile sourceing] into kdm ['s xsessions ?] would not help when kde is started from gdm or xdm, is that right? With debian (and gdm) I experience a non-system-default umask setting only in KDE and all apps started in that KDE session. All other DEs work ok, maybe they are not doing it "the right way" way but it works somehow. If there is a better way you know about how the distro should handle this please add a comment to http://bugs.debian.org/250645 simply by sending e-mail to 250645 at bugs.debian.org Kind Regards, Christian ------- Additional Comment #19 From Oswald Buddenhagen 2004-06-02 22:42 ------- obviously it serves only kdm, unless the other dms use the same Xsession. depending on the gdm version you may still be using a script-per-session-type setup - that would explain why only kde behaves differently only under gdm.