I think you are correct about this having to do with drakfirsttime. It
did not happen the first time I logged in as root, and firsttime doesn't
run for root. Then I added a new user and logged in as that, and it did
happen. The contents of the .xsession-errors file for that user are:
xmodmap: commandline :0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L',
no corresponding keycodes
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting
Error while reading indicator status
HOWEVER, root's .xsession-errors also contains these lines (plus a lot
of other stuff), so they may have nothing to do with firsttime.
I'd try to run firsttime manually, but I can't figure out how.
