On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote: > your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile > is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login > shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your > environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in > your .bash_profile.
I think that is not the problem I'm facing: When I start kde through "startx" my konsole has the enviroment set up properly. When I start kde through kdm, the same console does not have the environment set up. If I had the problem you talk about, I would face it either way, right? Thank you for your reply Joao Clemente -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Richard Cook -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]