On Saturday 07 February 2004 16:06, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > The problem is probably that when you start KDE with KDM (GUI login) that > the: "Xsession" script is not running these two scripts: > > /etc/profile > $HOME/.bash_profile > > {some systems use: $HOME/.profile} for the second one. > > I do this by making the: "Xsession" file a login script. The first line > is: > > #!/bin/bash --login > > or the: "Xsession" script can explicitly source the two configuration > files. > > Note that some setups have an: "Xsession" script: > > $KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/Xsession > > that does nothing but source the system: "Xsession" script which is > normally: > > /etc/X11/Xsession > > If that is the case, the first one needs to be the login script. > > It is also possible that after an upgrade that you have an extra: > "Xsession" script that is causing the problem. This does not appear to be working. I also forgot to mention that when I su to root from Konsole, I get the standard prompt that is defined in /etc/profile. However when just starting Konsole as a normal user, I receive the bash-2.05b$ prompt. -- Gus Tabares ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.