On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 11:02 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: <snip>
If I include this file, then the Gnome settings are activated upon KDE login, but I'm pretty sure this is not how things were working before the latest YaST-supplied updates (from the supplementary for 9.1 repository). I say that because with this .desktop file in the KDE Autostart directory, I see a taskbar tile corresponding to this application, but it just stays there displaying the "bouncing cursor" until the launch feedback times out. I never saw that before.
It sounds like you may need to specify the correct path to gnome-settings-daemon if it's not in your $PATH. Just do a: 'whereis gnome-settings-daemon' from a shell prompt and then include that in the gsd.desktop file. Something like Exec=/opt/gnome/bin/gnome-settings-daemon --oaf ..etc HTH