Hi David, On Tue Jul 13 21:11:41 2004 David M wrote: > One point though if somebody knows how to set global environment variables > that work within the point and click environment within kde (.profile doesnt > seem to work) I certainly would like to know. IIRC this is related to pam configuration, see pam(7). The display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm) you use should have a configuration file under /etc/pam.d/. In order to correctly set environment variables this file must (AFAIK) contain the line auth required pam_env.so Google for 'kdm "environment variables" pam' HTH Jan -- Jan Weil http://linuxaudioblog.jawebada.de