both are now set in /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, but that still does not solve the problem. i logged in and out and inside kde nothing changed, even after restarting gdm. do i even have to restart my computer? i'm using Debian/Sarge with KDE 3.3.2. On Monday 14 February 2005 17:49, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Your terminals show the changes because the read more shell configuration > files. Well actually bash reads them when started as an interactive shell, > the bash running startkde isn't interactive. > > If those variable should be set for more than one user, you should set them > in some global configuration file, for example /etc/profile or whatever > your distribution uses. > > If it is single user only, it depends which version of KDE you are running. > > Btw, also set KDEDIRS to include both KDE directories, the one where your > package manager installed base KDE and the one you install to. > > For example if your distribution installs in /usr, KDEDIRS could look like > this > export KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local/kde > > Cheers, > Kevin ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.