I think there's some misunderstanding here... if you put .bash_profile in your home directory the settings will be applied.
BUT, the way that it works is that the settings are applied at the time of LOGIN, therefore if you simply open new Gnome sessions the script won't be run, as the new window will simply inherit the details at the time of login... You can prove this by adding... export YYY=1 ...to the bottom of .bash_profile, and then typing "su - <username>" and your password... $ env | grep YYY ...should return... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - seanmiller Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ env | grep YYY YYY=1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ If you then log out of Gnome altogether and re-login you should find that your environment is as you wish it to be on every terminal window you open. Hope that helps, Sean
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