Hi, > You didn't mention your .bashrc (or whatever, if you're running a shell > other than bash). .profile and etc run when you're starting a login > session. .bashrc and etc run otherwise. That it runs when you ssh in sort > of confirms that, as that'd be a login, thus running the login scripts. > See the bash info pages or manpage for more on that. But I'm not sure > that'd do it (unless you started it from a konsole window.) I use zsh and I have the same lines in my ~/.zshrc > >> Has anyone done anything similar, and has advice on how to get the >> private KDEDIRS working in a full X session ? I'm probably jsut not >> setting the environment variables in the right file, or in the right way >> ... > > You don't mention whether you're logging in at the text terminal and > running startx, or whether you're running a *DM (KDM, GDM, XDM, etc) > graphical login. Years ago back on Mandrake, I had problems with the *DM > at some point, and switched entirely to the text shell login and startx > method. I've used it since. I'm using the GDM graphical login. I could try startx I suppose, just to see what happens, but I don't see it as a long term solution. I would prefer for the standard graphical login to work. > But as I gave up on *DMs many years ago, I don't have the foggiest how > that sort of stuff is handled with them, except that I'm sure there must > be arrangements for doing it; I just don't know what they are. If I were > to set a *DM up, I'd certainly be checking the documentation to see how > all that worked, and setting up my config files accordingly. Good point. I'll see if I can dig up anything on how to control envorinment variables with GDM. cheers Chris ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.