> Looking at tdeio, I selected everything in tdedebugdialog and got the wanted
> reams of output in .xsession-errors

Interesting. This seems to work for everybody, but not for me. I do exactly the same thing (and tried other things as well), but I don't get anything in my .xsession-errors, not on the terminal in case I launch an application from there.
Any thought?
Thanks
  Michele