Hello, I've just found out some changes in the "starttde" script, see commit 77aed4a4 http://www.trinitydesktop.org/patches/1393268197:77aed4a4eba63e760c40cc 5b3d1ad556cad5c40f.diff I do not agree with what that patch for 2 reasons: 1) The principe: on my computer, I'm using TDE both on local session and in remote session at the same time, using the same user account. So when I login remotely, this patch will probably kill my locally-opened session ... 2) The way it is written: there are several piped commands (why not using a single awk or simply use bash ?) and the code is not robust at all. What is my user is called "greppy" for example ? (ok this is unlikely, but not impossible). The "grep -v grep" will eliminate this line ... Please avoid using a full-featured "ps" output then trying to parse the output! The "ps" command can already filter on user (ps -u $USER) and select output format (ps -o field1,field2 ...) So, at very least, the command could look like : ps -u ${USER} -o pid,cmd h | while read pid command args; do case "${command##*/}" in "dcopserver"|"gam_server") kill $pid ;; esac done Another approach would be to parse the /proc/[0-9]*/ folders, to avoid using any "ps" command at all... Francois