The $HOME/.icewm/startup file is being ignored

The KDE switch user program starts Xsession


/var/log/syslog output
sddm...: Session "icewm-session.desktop" selected, command: "icewm-session"
sddm-helper...: Starting: "/etc/sddm/Xsession "icewm-session""

Since icewm-session works why isn't it running .icewm/startup?
the file is executable and begins with #!/bin/bash

Hi

Please name your distro.

What is the contents of your $HOME/.xsession ( I do not have one....I use lightdm too)

Show output to
Has it ever worked?

Probably because another startup file takes precedence. If you cared to RTFM, you'd find out that

Ubuntu
the startup file never worked, I am trying to get it to work.

$HOME/.xsession does not exist

well thanks to lvm_.....you can now search for the system wide startup files and report if you find any.
any you find....other than the one you are trying to use.....I suggest you use root powers to make them unreadable
eg chmod 000 /etc/icewm/startup but this does not exist for me on a debian based distro as per
https://packages.debian.org/search?s...kworm&arch=any

Please post the full output (non-root = you ) of
I will post a snippet of mine...but post all of yours please.

and I am going to get grumpy if you show disrepect to members when asked to show 2 commands . eg snippet of xsession errors that I asked for

That was the first step I took before posting the question here.


I already searched the system for startup files.
I will work on this and post the solution if I find one.
Thank you.