Hallo, David M hat gesagt: // David M wrote: You might try to add those to /etc/environment as KEY=VALUE pairs, then add something like this to ~/.xsession and /etc/profile: # If /etc/environment is present, source it. It's useful to put default # environment settings in this file, and then source it both here and in # /etc/profile. if [ -f /etc/environment ] ; then . /etc/environment for n in `grep -v ^# /etc/environment | cut -s -d= -f1` ; do export $n; done fi # I also use this for my own env: # # if [ -f $HOME/.environment ] ; then # . $HOME/.environment # for n in `grep -v ^# $HOME/.environment | cut -s -d= -f1` ; do export $n; done # fi I never used KDE, but I assume, it uses ~/.xsession or something similar as well. It should honour /etc/profile at least. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

Hi David, On Tue Jul 13 21:11:41 2004 David M wrote: 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