KDE 3.1.1a The startkde script (/usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde) is supposed to process "shutdown scripts" after KDE exit, but improperly parses the list of 'exe' paths returned from kde-config, so only the first path in the list is processed as expected (usually ~/.kde/shutdown/). startkde includes the following code: # Run scripts found in $KDEDIRS/shutdown for prefix in `kde-config --path exe| sed -e 's^bin/^shutdown/^g;s^:^ ^'` do # run each script... done The second substitution expression passed to sed (s^:^ ^) doesn't include the /g modifier, so it replaces only the first path separator with the input field separator, yielding: /home/user/.kde/shutdown/ /usr/kde/3.1/shutdown/:/usr/shutdown/ Adding the /g modifier so that the argument to sed becomes 's^bin/^shutdown/^g;s^:^ ^g' fixes the problem. I checked bugs.kde.org to see if this issue was known upstream and found no mention of it.
Submitted to kde: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60896
closing this as a LATER - it's been reported ot kde folks...now we just have to get them to act on it.
Okay, has been fixed upstream in KDE for 3.2
