keyboard not working in GWorkspace and other smaller problems

Hi,

I am running GNUstep on OpenBSD. I changed the .xsession to start GWorkspace 
automatically after login:
 . /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
export PATH=/sbin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries
exec openapp GWorkspace

I can open a terminal with Alt+t, other shortcuts seem to work as well, but 
when I try to enter commands into the xterm window, the system is only 
beeping, and nothing more. Furthermore the xterm window has no window title 
bar, therefore I am unable to move it around the desktop as I cannot pick it 
in the title bar. Pressing Alt and clicking somewhere in the window doesn't 
work either.

I have 
NSGlobalDomain GSX11HandlesWindowDecorations NO
I tried to set this to YES, but then every window lacks the title bar, not 
only the terminal windows.

this is the same when I login locally or when I do a 
X -query bsdhost 

when I ssh -X into the OpenBSD box, and then start
openapp GWorkspace
and then open a terminal window, it has a window title bar (from my kde theme 
which I run locally) and I can enter commands into the xterm window. 
unfortunately the GWorkspace interferes with the locally running KDE, windows 
pop up, sometimes kde grabs shortcuts which are meant for gworkspace.

another thing I recognized:
when I started GWorkspace from ssh connection, and open a xterm window and 
issue a defaults read I get the following messge:

$ defaults read                                                                
defaults: can't load library 'libgnustep-base.so.1.12'
$ 

the defaults command works well, after I sourced the GNUstep.sh file, but not 
later after starting openapp GWorkspace and opening a terminal window.

is there anything I can do about that?
if you need more information, please let me know