Recommended practice to debug a kinetd program ============================================== Instead of executing your program directly, start a wrapper script that looks like this: #!/bin/sh exec xterm -e gdb --args /opt/kde/bin/krfb $1 $2 Note that you cannot use konsole because it closes the file descriptor. You need a very recent gdb version for the "--args" option (>= 5.2, only available as CVS snapshot at this time).