I managed to get gkrellm and a background to load up on start, but I did it in an unorthadox way. In order to have blackbox as an option in gdm, I had to add a Blackbox script to the /etc/gdm/Sessions/ directory. I added "gkrellm -w &" and a background command to the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Blackbox script and it worked.
I am happy. Really. Is there some way that I can have the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Blackbox script parse (I think that is the word-[read]) another file, possibly the .xsession file? Since I am the only user of this machine, it does not really matter, but I would like to be able, if I log in as another user, the have a different background. Thanks in advance John Marr
